It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...
Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows. Well,
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.
The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might suddenly dissolve.
Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.
God is merciful in what He sometimes lets us forget.
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.
On one of the walls of his office hung his undergraduate degree from Columbia and his law degree from the Harvard School of Law.
Jestliže se chceš dotknout srdce nějakého člověka, musíš vidět jeho tvář. Do duše se nedostaneš telefonem.
It’s not a pretty world, Papa. I’ve noticed, my father said softly.
I sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so full of love could be worshipped by someone whose heart was so full of hate.
We will have many fights. But they will be for the sake of Torah.
We have hurt you, yet you love us. We have exiled you, yet you are tied to us. Though He slay me, yet will I have faith in Him.
Verbal fraud is worse than monetary fraud.
The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.
Life connects us, Benjamin, not artifice.
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship, he told me. Haven't you learned that yet, Reuven?
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...
Gershon had never seen him so transformed, so possessed of open radiance, so easily moved by all around him, so hungry, so eager. The city was a woman, and he embraced it with all the tender and gentl...
As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --ordinary things is a better expression. That...