“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”

“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”

“I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.”

“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.”

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”

“He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.”

“None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.”