Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.