If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Every man ought to plant a tree.

By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective.

You will fall with me as a stone in the grave

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

You never know what an audience is going to think about something. The ones that the audience doesn't get, I tend to let them go. I don't like to dwell on them too much.

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

Young people need models, not critics.

It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.