Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

I shall teach you the best way to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing but an ear that hears what the universe of the word is constantly saying within you. The moment you start hearing what you yourself are saying, YOU must stop.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

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

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.