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

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

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

If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

God in heaven sits on high and plays games with us. He has plenty to do up there, what with building worlds and then knocking them down again, breaking things up and then rebuilding them, and yet he can manage to put his mind even to a little grocer in his shop or to a babe in the cradle.

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