Sholem Asch

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.

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.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

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

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

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

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.