“Inability to cooperate with others. More people lose their positions and their big opportunities in life, because of this fault, than for all other reasons combined.”

“"It is more than a crime; it is a political fault," —words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.”

“If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.”

“No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.”

“Wisdom is a combination of intelligence that is based on reasoning skills and supported by the ability to understand other people's points of view.”

“Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.”

“Although covetousness is not my only flaw, it seems to cause me more pain than all my other sins combined.”

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

“Life is not about projecting onto others your inability to cope, nurturing hatred and then going off either to self-destruction or to annihilate those who have been more successful than you.”

“We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.”