Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wheat for us to mill and bake into bread. Why? So that we could be HIs partners in completing the work of creation.

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

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.

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

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.