Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.

Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.