Every little deed counts.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.