“I was a great dreamer of day dreams.”

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

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.

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.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

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

You must never tire fighting Satan.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

The dearest days in one’s life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

If you feel that you are good, don’t be too proud of it.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

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.

For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.

Like I’m a puzzle to be worked out and he’s got all damn day.

[International law] doesn’t show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn’t show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what’s fundamentally important to somebody else today.

I think the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight. It’s not a gay wedding, it’s just a wedding. It’s not a gay marriage, it’s just a marriage.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.

The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.