“I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.”

“The Holy Scriptures were not givento us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.”

“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.”

“I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.”

“There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.”

“I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.”