If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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.
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
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.