“A thief is like a person who has been dead from the start.”

Teachers learn from their students’ discussions

Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.

God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.

Naked a man comes into the world and naked he leaves it, after all is said and done he leaves nothing except the good deeds he leaves behind.

Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.

Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.

Receive all with simplicity that happens to you

The world exists for the sake of kindness.

The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.

Since man is in the likeness of the angels, and they would be jealous of him, for this reason, He consulted them.

We learn from here the humility of the Holy One, Blessed is He.

The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.

I’ve been right more than I’ve been wrong.

I’ve been in eleven no-hitters you know.

I’ve never been no superficial cat.

My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn’t get me anywhere then at least it wasn’t because I tried to be something I’m not.

I felt his eyes devour me as i moved around the room. He assessed me head to toe without blinking, and a hot ache shivered through me. A kiss would’ve been less intimate.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

I forced a smile. It was the one i’d been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.

There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.