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

But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.

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

You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.

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.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

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