The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

I belong to the tribe of Levi.

It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free.

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.