In the world to come they will not ask me, "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?"
Time itself is an element.
If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.
All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
When fate's got it in for you, there's no limit to what you may have to put up with.
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.
To become a father is not hard, to be a father is, however.
However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Character is that which can do without success.
Joy is your birthright.
My own mind is my own church.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.