Trifles make the sum of life.
Torah values are the ones that inform my life.
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
They want us dead. So we have to stay alive.
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome – to be got over.[Das Leben nicht eigentlich da, um genossen, sondern um überstanden, abgetan zu werden.]
There are moments that you’ll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you think you’ll remember for the rest of your life, and it’s not often they turn out to be the same moment.
There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
There are horrors beyond life’s edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man’s evil prying calls them just within our range.
The wisest men in all ages have judged similarly with regard to life: it is good for nothing.[Über das Leben haben zu allen Zeiten die Weisesten gleich geurtheilt: es taugt nichts…]
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life.
