When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.

God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.

There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.