"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really ought to have known before beginning."

"I fear that old women will always be more skeptical than old men."

"How little it takes to make us happy! The sound of a bagpipe. Without music life would be a mistake. The German even imagines God as singing songs."

"The Jews are the most remarkable nation of world history because, faced with the question of being or not being, they preferred, with a perfectly uncanny conviction, being at any price."

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."