Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.

Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.

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

We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

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.

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