Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God. Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God. Beloved are Israel, for unto them was given the desirable Torah

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.

Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.

He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image.

A fence to wisdom is silence.

Before you taste anything, recite a blessing.

Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God.

Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of the All-present.

Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.

Look closely at your greatest thoughts about yourself. That's your future.

Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process.

As long as we are stronger than our troubles, we will always see them left behind us!

A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory!

Winter is a time to pause, reflect and renew for the coming Spring.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.