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.

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

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

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.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.