To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.

What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the centers of the organized antiwar resistance movement.

If someone asks you for something, provide them with a clear "No" or a delivery date.

My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.