"Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God."

“We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.”

“I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.”

“Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”

“Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor must we see grief as a step toward something better. No matter how much it hurts-and it may be the greatest pain in life-grief can be an end in itself, a pure expression of love.”

“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”

“There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.”

“How we do anything, means everything.”

Source : "How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything". Book by Dov Seidman, 2011.

“Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.”