For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer.

Sometimes small things lead to great joys.

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

I belong to the tribe of Levi.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.