Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself stretched to terrible proportions once inflamed the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

Hairdressers are professional gossips when only the hands are busy the tongue is seldom still.

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune?

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.