There is no other position and no other place where you will be as happy as the place of your calling

The only way you're going to reach places you've never gone is if you trust God's direction to do things you've never done.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the or of a friend's child, or in order to have a deba...

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which t...

Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip through, with her basket--Little Red Riding-Hood comes to me one Christmas Eve to...

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

I was my own boss, but that all changed the day I got married.

We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

Don't fight to be right, but fight when you are right.

Be good to feel good and to attract good.

Service to God is largely unacceptable without service to men

This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's disinherited, of those who do not fit in with their surroundings or with their own body or with their...

Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.