Martin Buber

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

The only thing I command is respect.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.