I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

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

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

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

I am commanded therefore I am.