"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."

"When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly."

"It is a enduring truth that stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."

"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day."

"There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope."