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

Teachers learn from their students’ discussions

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.

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.

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything.

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

Success is the child of audacity.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don’t know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.