I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

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.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

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.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.