Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.

To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

We may be joined these days more by the questions we have in common than by the answers we share.