Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed..

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your….

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people..

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words..

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason..

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions..

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human..

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!.

The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns ….

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: ….

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain..

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness..

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, ….

To be is to stand for..

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence….

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method.

New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. ... Man's true fulfillment ….

There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons hence, when of many of our cheris….

All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror..