The strength within ourselves—through access to our own real needs and feelings and the possibility of expressing them—is crucially important for us if we want to live without depression and addiction.

Dichotomy #1: Care About Each Individual, but Make Sacrifices for the Group

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

You can't command commitment; you have to inspire it. You have to enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations.

The important thing is for you to be logical and objective in assessing your probabilities of being right. It is not illogical or arrogant to believe that you know better than the average person, so long as you are appropriately open-minded.

The Jew does not experience faith primarily in solitude. He or she experiences it primarily in community, in what one does with others. The synagogue is not the locus of Jewish life. The Shabbat dinner table is.

To be more present, you must embrace the inevitability of discomfort. Instead of resisting boredom by staying busy, focus your attention on it. Stay bored, see where it leads you.

Love can coexist with anger when we include the five A’s in our expression of anger.

Players with an infinite mindset want to leave their organizations in better shape than they found them.

She had used His Name as a punctuation mark, and not as though she were speaking to a real, living Person.