The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

To be is to stand for.

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.

Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind. God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.