If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

You must never tire fighting Satan.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.