A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.
Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good husband, an amiable man. . . [T]here is no occasion at all for pitying Mrs. Gaon. . . . Saints are happy in their suffering, and noble souls find their happiness in sacrificing themselves for these sufferers.
Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.
God doesn't send His children to Hell either. It's just the Devil's children that God sends to Hell. Why should God look after the Devil's children.
I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.
He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship