Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Deeply happy people are even thankful for the trials and tragedies they pass through.
Dream while others are sleeping. Dare while others are wishing. Do while others are talking. Deliver while others are quitting.