In the coming world they will not ask me, ‘Why were you not Moses?’ They will ask me, ‘Why were you not Zusya?’

Rabbi Meshullam Zusya of Hanipol (1718-1800) Hassidic teacher

(Attributed)

In Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim: The Early Masters, "Zusya of Hanipol" [tr. Marx (1947)]