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?

When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.

If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.