Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

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.

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 knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.

You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

Spiritual balance is tai chi. It is the center of things. It is the place where yin and yang meet. In the chakras, it is considered the heart chalkra, anahata.

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people!

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON.

Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I see what keeps people young: work!