High-arousal emotions kindle the fire... activate people, and drive them to take action.

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.

Money-market mutual funds often provide investors the best instrument for parking their cash reserves.

Anchor fluff and dig beneath opinions, ideas, requests, and emotions.

Emotional parents are run by their feelings, swinging between overinvolvement and abrupt withdrawal. They are prone to frightening instability and unpredictability.

The most important step is to get started. Rituals help, too. But the biggest difference lies in the task you are facing to start with.

Anxiety says, ‘What if?’... But our tool for defeating ‘what if’ is found in two words: ‘Because God.

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

Don’t say you weren’t too happy because the hotel was pretty expensive. Say you weren’t happy because the hotel was expensive.

Believing that pregnancy, childbirth and parenting can be somehow optimized puts us in danger of bringing into the world an object to be perfected rather than a person to relate to.