"The wise man should always be modest and humble."

"The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it."

"The human intellect is a spark of the divine intellect."

"A person should study the written Torah first, and then read this [book], and thereby know the entire oral Torah, so that he will not need to read any other book in between them."

"One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed, the scale is tipped to the good—he and the world are saved."