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

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.

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.

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

This feeling of being in proximity to something that’s lost to you, it seems like my whole life right now.

The last if not the greatest of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’” He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,” Roshaun said, “ ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.

Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.

Show love! Love feels good!

A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.