Quotes from Sholem Asch

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.

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

The best security for old age: respect your children.

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

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

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

Jesus Christ is the outstanding personality of our time. Every act and word of Jesus has value for us. He became the light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of that?

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

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.

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

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

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

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

like one of us?" "Saul, Saul, I am not as learned as you, but do you not see that if the Messiah

sins, leave

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

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

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

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

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.