One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.

It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

The biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they did eat" is interpreted by Rabbi Zusya to the effect that man stands above the angels, because he knows something unknown to them, namely, that eating may be hallowed by the eater's intention.... Any natural act, if hallowed, leads to God, and nature needs man for what no angel can perform on it, namely, its hallowing.