If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.

The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be from anything that is noble and good, true and upright, in art or science, in culture or education; the more joyfully will he applaud whenever he sees truth and justice and peace and the ennoblement of man prevail and become dominant in human society.

To really observe the Sabbath in our day and age! To cease for a whole day from all business, from all work, amidst the frenzied hurry-scurry of our age! To close the stock exchanges, the stores, the factories - how would it be possible? The pulse of life would stop beating and the world perish! The world perish? To the contrary, it would be saved.

It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.

We live in a divine world.

All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.