Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about.

...moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

I am suggesting that we don’t put the “income” cart before the “contentment” horse.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

You know, people have tried to make out there is a split between environmentalism and labor over the years. And if that was ever true, it becomes less so all the time.

Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

I'm a glutton for coffee Heath Bar crunch ice cream.

I believe in nothing.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.