No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is..

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning ….

Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different..

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give peopl….

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship..

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul.

We need to listen to one another..

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the….

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown.

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life..

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things..

My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker o….

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the plan….

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,….

I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth..

It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people….

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven..

I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing….

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive..

All beginnings are hard..

We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life….