Inner peace is a quiet evening moonlight walk in the soft falling snow of our minds

Spiritually is finding the truth in you.

Life-long learning is the modus of keeping your brain…your thoughts…your ideas…engaged in a quest for knowledge that enriches and expands the mind with a constant thirst for wisdom.

To see something as either black or white is easy. To see the entirety in something that has blending colors takes time. To see something that’s not there, takes one who is a visionary.

As the years go by, it’s our relationships that will leave us the best memories to celebrate endlessly.

Revenge is like waves hitting the beach, the water is drawn in and sucked back into yet another wave, pounding and smashing its shoreline!

We talk a lot about the five senses: vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. I would add one more…imagination.

Life can be just black and white, but with imagination, life is a kaleidoscope of exhilarating colors and breathtaking adventures.

Friendship is a door you will never need to knot on as you will always have a key.

More of life seems to live inside us than out. Happiness is when you connect both of them.

A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago… tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again.

the path of change is unpredictable.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart.

You know, Alix, men suck. Really. They are the worst. Come with me. I need an estrogen fix before their chromosomal defects contaminate me any further. (Zarina)

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.