All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.

He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.

Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.