To understand a new idea, break an old habit.
Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.
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.
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
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