Rebbe Quotes

#1. God gave each of us a soul, which is a candle that He gives us to illuminate our surroundings with His light," the Rebbe taught at a 1990 worldwide Chanukah satellite linkup. "We must not only illuminate the inside of homes, but also the outside, and the world at large.

Joseph Telushkin

#2. As the former British chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks has expressed it: "If the Nazis searched out every Jew in hate, the Rebbe wished to search out every Jew in love.

Joseph Telushkin

#3. My father's right to shape my life had been taken from him by the same being who gave his own life meaning - the Rebbe.

Chaim Potok

#4. This is what true love is about, the Rebbe told Sharfstein. "It's the small acts that you do on a daily basis that turn two people from a 'you and I' into an 'us.'" Sharfstein

Joseph Telushkin

#5. Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

Billy Cannon

#6. Why be difficult, when with only a little bit of effort, you can be impossible?

Georgia Cates

#7. Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.

Albert J. Nock

#8. When we change the input into our minds, we change the output into our lives.

Zig Ziglar

#9. Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

Stephen Charnock

#10. Creativity is our only weapon against entropy

Dean Cavanagh

#11. Encourage the enthusiastic.

The Rebbe

#12. If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.

Danny Bonaduce

#13. Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

Ira Glass

#14. To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

Cat Stevens

#15. They had the lure of the Wal-Mart volume," [Jim] Wier said. "Once you get hooked on the volume, it's like getting hooked on cocaine. You've created a monster for yourself.

Charles Fishman

#16. I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty ... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself ... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me.

Queen Latifah

#17. What you believe has a much greater impact on your life than what anybody else believes.

Joel Osteen

#18. Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.

Clint Eastwood