Where there is no peace, prayers are not heard.

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.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.

Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.

This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.