Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

You must never tire fighting Satan.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

In great deeds something abides.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.