Some troubles do not go away as we grow older. They grow older with us.
Without stories there is nothing. Stories are the world’s memory. The past is erased without stories.
I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something....
An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.
Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.
Great artists make the entire world their home.
Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world was that for two thousand years the world had been taught that Jews, not Romans,...
A choice tells the world what is most important to a human being. When a man has a choice to make he chooses what is most important to him, and that choice tells the world what kind of a man he is.
A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of ocean surf. i almost recognized the melody, but i could not be sure, it slipped like a cool...
Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows. Well,
… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.
All a man has in the world is the now, the day and the hour where he is, because tomorrow is an entirely different world.
True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice. —BEN JONSON
On one of the walls of his office hung his undergraduate degree from Columbia and his law degree from the Harvard School of Law.
It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...
The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might suddenly dissolve.
One derives great moral strength from a cup of coffee, I said.
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship, he told me. Haven't you learned that yet, Reuven?