“Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.”

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.

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.

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

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.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

More than anything else, I’d like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

And the whole is greater than the part.