Harold Kushner Quotations

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

A prophet is not a man who tells the future; he is a man who tells the truth.

The major Jewish dietary laws rest on a single premise: Eating meat is a moral compromise. There is a difference between eating a hamburger and eating a bowl of cereal. For one of them, a living creature had to be killed. Should we ever become so casual about the eating of meat that we lose sight of that distinction, a part of our humanity will have shriveled and died.