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

Sometimes small things lead to great joys.

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

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

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.

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