"The best minister is the human heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"Our Holy Scriptures are not only a religious book, but the foundation of our literature, our language and our history, and the sole source of them." ~~ Rav Tza’ir
"People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning." ~~ Steven Spielberg
"Reading poetry in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"A good book is like a beautiful garden which you can carry in your hand." ~~ Chananya Reichman
"The best of poems is that which men of intelligence are content with and the people understand." ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra
"A people’s only national literature is the one written in its national language." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"There is no book that has not something bad in it, none that has not something good." ~~ Traditional Proverb
"Literature is the safest key to a nation’s treasure. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"Three possessions should you prize: a field, a friend, and a book." ~~ Hai Gaon
"Books are pouches of wisdom embroidered with pearly words." ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra
"Many pens are broken, and seas of ink consumed, to descibe things that never happened." ~~ Midrash Tanchuma
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