Despite everything I believe in the future:
of humanity, of the Jews, of the Land of Israel...

It is not myself I am trying to save, but my thoughts...

I wish that tomorrow I could be sitting in my narrow little room in Jerusalem, in front of a Bible, some textbooks, a Hebrew dictionary, paper, pencil...

so that I could say: A new leaf -- final chapter.

--Janusz Korczak, from a letter to Moshe Zertal, 1937