Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

I am commanded therefore I am.

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.