Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.

Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

Therefore, it is forbidden to say anything to anyone that might cause animosity between any two people.

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.

When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.

When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.

Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

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