One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny.

A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems we can't solve are not necessarily insoluble. Second, when we need it, God offers us a sense of forgiveness, a sense of cleansing from our incompleteness. . . . Last and perhaps most important, a personal relationship with God redeems us from the fear of death. We needn't be afraid that all our good deeds will vanish when we die.

It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So, naturally, the mountain fights back and it is stronger than you are. We do not see the mountain as our enemy to be conquered. The purpose of our climb is to become one with the mountain and so it lifts us up and carries us along.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office