You must never tire fighting Satan.

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.

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.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Never fear the unknown that is where your future may lie

People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.

Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.

...but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.

I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.

If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago, I would have done a different movie.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

Keep the competitive leads warm, get your deal oversubscribed, because until your deal is done, it's just a nice fantasy in your head

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.