An angry man is unfit to pray.

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?

Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.

You are wherever your thoughts are, make sure your thoughts are where you want to be.

Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.

Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give.

Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.

The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.

Seek the good in everyone, and reveal it, bring it forth.

It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

...while social analysis must always be part of curriculum development and teaching, education policy and practice needs to be protected against the dangers of fads, obsessions and moral panics.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.

Meditating is not a matter of saying i am going to meditate. It is, just for a moment retreating from the need to do anything and instead just be.

A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

I'm going to tell you, what's good for al Qaeda is good for the Democratic Party in this country today.

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.