If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

Sometimes small things lead to great joys.

On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer.

It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free.

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

Eyes are a deaf man’s ears. Ears are a blind man’s eyes.

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big.

When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.

When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team.