But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Singing is a prayer to me.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right.