Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

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.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

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

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.

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.