"Do not consider that which I have written, as if it were a new invention, or a thing which I have discovered of my own accord, for I have only collected what is scattered in the books of the Sages, an…"

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

"The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who has the disease."

"any man who believes in the truth of wizardry is a fool, lacking in understanding, and is in the same class as women and children, whose intellects are incomplete."

"Maimonides goes so far as to say that the get is still valid even if the court must force him with lashes until he says he is prepared to give the get."