Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life.

Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.

Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.

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

A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.

Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.

Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden.

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

Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.

Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.

We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

You cannot change the minds of the mindless. But that doesn't mean you just admit that's the way we have to live.

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

I don't want to show kids that I am smoking.

No one can keep you down but yourself

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

We have our whole lives to try and get a glimpse of what that could be, in our own life. It's so exciting.

Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.