What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

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.

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.

Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any account

I feel so sorry that many Christians live in bondage even though Jesus has signed their release form with His own blood.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

I never not wanted to become an actress.

No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.

I want to make change, but I've already made change. I will continue to make change. I'm not just running on a promise of change.

If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!