We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World.

We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.