The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

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.

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.