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

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.

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.

Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

We are the archenemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us - for us.