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Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
There is no greater mercy than to remind and inspire people to study the fear of God.
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
Each person begins life with a head start in some areas and a handicap in other areas.
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.
A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.
I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.
Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
Our mission on earth is to recognize the void - inside and outside of us - and fill it.
It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible.
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day
There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.
Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.
To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
The more that things change, the more we need to depend upon those things that never change.
Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.
The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.
... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.
A king without a queen is not a king. The main point of creation is the union of male and female.
God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don't think we are capable of doing.
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.