A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.
Simon SoloveychikA child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.
Simon SoloveychikA vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.
Simon SoloveychikHappiness does not depend on the size or content of a goal, but on the strength of the desire to have it.
Simon SoloveychikA free man - is a man who is free internally. As all other people, externally he or she depends on society. Internally he or she is independent. A society can become liberated externally - from oppression, but it can become free only when the majority of people are free internally.
Simon Soloveychik