“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.”

“Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.”

“to be a Jew is to belong to an old harmless race that has lived in every country in the world; and that has enriched every country it has lived in."It is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, industrious against idleness, kind against cruelty! It is to belong to a race that has given Europe its religion; its moral law; and much of its science-perhaps even more of its genius-in art, literature and music."This is to be a Jew; and you know now what is required of you! You have no country but the world; and you inherit nothing but wisdom and brotherhood. I do not say there are no bad Jews-userers; cowards; corrupt and unjust persons-but such people are also to be found among Christians. I only say to you this is to be a good Jew. Every Jew has this aim brought before him in his youth. He refuses it at his peril; and at his peril he accepts it.”

“Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.”

“The fact is that Santa and Satan are alter egos, brothers; they have the same origin.”

“There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act.”

“Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can’t send any other way can be heard.”