Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

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

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

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

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

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.