There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

Never give up! And write for yourself first and foremost.

Grace allows for questions ... and is the answer!" EL

Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.

The only thing that would keep me from winning the election is to be caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy

A man's idee in a card game is war

When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value.