If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.

If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.

Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.