“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.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

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.

Right now, holding you, i feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together.

It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.

The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.