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

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.

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.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the cities in the diaspora. But I always deemed myself a child of Jerusalem, one who is in reality a native of Jerusalem.