...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.

I can’t say that there are “things” that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are thoughts that take me beyond myself; that remind me that there’s a bigger game going on on this planet than simply my own existence; that love works miracles, and how much we need them now.

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

Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.

Angry people cannot create a peaceful planet

We must seek to be intellectually inclusive, just as we seek to be culturally inclusive. Ideas come and go - that's what makes a free society so vital.