Happy Birthday Schalom Asch!

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

The lash may force men to physical labor; it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers forever!

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

It's alright--there are many avenues, many corridors of the soul that are dark also.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no matter how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.

Heritage is Scriptures . . . which have become absorbed into our blood.

Personality is the gland of creativity.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

Suffering, my son, is the fount of love. Suffering is the grace, the great grace, which our Father in heaven pours down upon us. For suffering gives men submissive hearts. He that does not suffer thinks that he stands upon a mighty rock which he himself has raised. He does not see his brother; he sees only himself. He believes in no one; he believes only in his own strength. His heart becomes a swamp which swarms with reptiles: pride, obstinacy, and self-love. And when his footstool is rolled away from under him, he sinks, together with all the reptiles, into the depths of hell. But he to whom God has granted suffering shall find his pains like ropes which bind him to his Father in heaven. His heart is awake to feel the pains of his brother in need. He sends afflictions upon you and makes you small on earth that you may be great in heaven.

I can see no hope for our unhappy world save that which lies in the renewal of the moral and spiritual values which our common ideal of faith has created.

The best security for old age: respect your children.