From the Editor

“I did everything I wanted to do. I have no regrets.”

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“Is this the birthday house?”

“He got up, put on his black vest and jacket, adjusted his gold-rimmed spectacles and his black hat, and stepped into the courtyard. There before Weingarten stood a middle-aged British major wearing the yellow-and-red insignia of the Suffolk Regiment. From his right hand dangled a bar of rusted iron almost a foot long. With a solemn gesture he offered it to the elderly rabbi. It was a key, the key to Zion Gate, one of the seven gates of the Old City of Jerusalem.

‘From the year 70 A.D. until today,” he said, “a key to the gates of Jerusalem has never been in Jewish hands. This is the first time in eighteen centuries that your people have been so privileged.’

Weingarten extended a trembling hand to accept the key. Jewish legend held that on the night the Roman Emperor Titus destroyed the Temple, its despairing priests had thrown the keys of Jerusalem to heaven crying ‘God, henceforth be Thou the guardian of the keys.’ Now the improbable agent of their return to Jewish hands stood to attention and saluted.”

Larry Collins
& Dominique Lapierre

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.”

"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."

“I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord watches over you— the Lord is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.”

The unexamined life is not worth living.

“Napoleon went forth to seek Virtue, but, since she was not to be found, he got Power.”

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."

“First they came for the Socialists,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left
to speak for me.”

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."

“Life is what happens to you when you’re making other plans.”

“Against greatly superior forces it is possible to win a battle, but hardly a war.”

 

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

“In the dessert there are no lights to steal the glory of the stars.”

“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”

Printers are educated in the belief, that when men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; and that when truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

“But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.”

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

“I don’t share blame, I don’t share credit, and I don’t share desserts.”

"What would you do if you weren't afraid?"

Vanity Fair asked Peter Jennings: What is your motto? “‘To live by what Jefferson said: ‘I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.’”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are every thing."

“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.”

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”