Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

The vain being is the really solitary being.