“Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.”

“A wife is the joy of a man's heart.”

“When love is strong a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.”

“The burden is equal to the horse's strength.”

“Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.”

“If I am not for myself who will be for me? If I am not for others who am I for? And if not now when?”

“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prov...”

“Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.”