"The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it."

"Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom."

"Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology."

"Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools."

"Wisdom principle 45 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 8."

"Breathe deeply, anchor your attention in this breath, and let the storm pass. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"It is a steadfast truth that every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The foundation of joy is every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."