“Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.”

A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.

Everything above and below is one unity.

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

Fear builds walls to bar the light.

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

I am going out one door, and shall go through another.

From every human being there rises a light.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering – you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.

Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”

For my sake, the entire world was created.

He who is full of joy is full of love.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.

They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

I want to present interesting stories that don’t qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.