There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.

- Yisroel Salanter

To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?

- Yisroel Salanter

Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.

- Yisroel Salanter

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

- Yisroel Salanter

There is no greater illness than discouragement!

- Yisroel Salanter

Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.

- Yisroel Salanter

There is no greater mercy than to remind and inspire people to study the fear of God.

- Yisroel Salanter

Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

- Yisroel Salanter

Promote yourself, but do not demote another.

- Yisroel Salanter