You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

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

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.

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