People mistake their limitations for high standards.

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.

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

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

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

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

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.