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

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

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.

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.

I have had a most unusual life so far. I know not why.

We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.

I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.