Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

You must never tire fighting Satan.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

The kind person is rewarded by nature.

People keep making excuses, that’s why everthing happens for a reason.

Whose bread I eat his song I sing.

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

The full glory of the hokey pokey is to put your whole self in.

I'll always be a Golden Eagle

Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures through the keyhole of the stretch of the next millennium

Very successful people say no to almost everything.