Rabbi Meir said, ‘Great is repentance, because for the sake of one who truly repents, the whole world is pardoned.’
No person may buy a beast, an animal, or a bird until that person has provided food for it.
This is what the Holy One said to Israel: My children, what do I seek from you? I seek no more than that you love one another and honor one another.
Regard as trivial the good you did to others, and as enormous the little good others did to you.
You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people.
Who is honored? One who honors others.
Everyone enjoys a ready response, and word rightly timed is especially good.
Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai was always careful to greet everyone first whom he met.
Speak to everyone who is naturally talented, to whom I have granted a spirit of wisdom, and then let them make Aaron’s clothing.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.