We can endure much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is learn not to be afraid of pain. Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Don't deny it, don't be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever. One day, the pain will be gone and you will still be there.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

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

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

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

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.