A mitzvah that costs money is worth more than one that costs nothing.

Include yourself in any reproof.

Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.

Find a day for yourself-better yet, late at night. Go to the forest or to the field, or lock yourself in a room ... You will meet solitude there. There you will be able to listen attentively to the noise of the wind first, to birds singing, to see wonderful nature and to notice yourself in it ... and to come back to harmonic connection with the world and its Creator.

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.