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[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.
There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.
The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.
Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence?
Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.
Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.
The time when you need to do something is when people are saying it can't be done.
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful.
If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.
Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.
We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.
Well certainly not having any choice - having your entire life dictated by others.
Autism doesn't seem to have a seasonal component, unlike some forms of depression.
Due to global warming, the coming winters in the local regions will become milder.
Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.
What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.
Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.
We all get misinformation growing up about people who are different from ourselves.
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.
Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.
We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.
We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.
The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.
We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.
If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.
My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.
In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.
..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.
Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.
Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.
P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low.
Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.
I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me.
Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.
If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.
Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.