You are loved, and your purpose is to love.

In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world.

For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

Some of us believe humanity should be in divine partnership with nature, some people believe that man has been given by God the right to have dominion over nature. But since even they say that we should be good stewards, that right there should be the common ground.

My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."

We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform.