Some troubles do not go away as we grow older. They grow older with us.
Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.
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....
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.
Without stories there is nothing. Stories are the world’s memory. The past is erased without stories.
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.
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.
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...
Great artists make the entire world their home.
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.
… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.
Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows. Well,
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,...
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship, he told me. Haven't you learned that yet, Reuven?
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.
He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze at Gershon, and Gershon did not look away. I will tell you, Loran what is of importance is not that...
True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice. —BEN JONSON
There are times when those who fear God make themselves very unpleasant as human beings.
The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might suddenly dissolve.
On one of the walls of his office hung his undergraduate degree from Columbia and his law degree from the Harvard School of Law.