You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls.

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny.