The Jewish Wisdom Database

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Even a paranoid has some real enemies.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

He who limps is still walking.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.