We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.

All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came about only because of the failure to view clearly the majesty of God.

When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.

A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

The desire to be good to all with no restrictions - not in the quantity of those to whom we are good nor in the quality of the good we perform - that is the inner nucleus of the essence of the soul of Israel.