To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

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

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

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.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death