The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

God who preceded all existence is a refuge.

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

The flame of the spirit is a burning lamp.

Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization.

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

The new is not a fashion, it is a value.

In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance.