When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

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.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about me and it hurt them to see me in pain; others because I reminded them of their own vulnerability, and that was more than they could handle. But real friends overcame their discomfort and came to sit with me. If they had not words to make me feel better, they sat in silence (much better than saying, "You'll get over it," or "It's not so bad; others have it worse") and I loved them for it.

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