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.

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

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

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.

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.

How old did you have to be before you learned the difference between the simulacrum of love and the reality?

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

Giving is recieving

The Creator creates all creation.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.

When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness.

Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.