It is not only individuals—peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed. - Itzhak Peretz

Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down.

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

There are melodies that must have words... and melodies that sing themselves without words. The latter are of a higher grade. But these, too, depend on a voice and lips,... hence are not yet altogether pure, not yet genuine spirit. Genuine melody sings itself without a voice. It sings inside, within the heart, in man's very entrails!