Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Devotion is a social force.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
