It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?

Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.

You are wherever your thoughts are, make sure your thoughts are where you want to be.

Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.

Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give.

Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.

The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.

Seek the good in everyone, and reveal it, bring it forth.

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

The human has not one but two births – first, when a person is born from the mother’s womb, and second, when that person rises from the socio-culturally imposed cocoon of prejudices and ignorance.

I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it.

Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.

When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.

In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.

I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

The french fry is my canvas.