Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

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.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

How to Draw a Picture (XII)Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is how you think about the problem.

When it comes to human success, I'm pretty sure the object doesn't need a net external force to move it.

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.

Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.

Whether by pill or invasive surgery, abortion is never good for women.

All children have rights and those rights must be protected.

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

Ignorant power is a bane!