Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.

I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.