Quotes from Shmuley Boteach

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.

None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are special, you won't seek to contribute your gift to the world.

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.

Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.

My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.

the best gift we can give each other is the gift of time -- those precious, special, eternal moments.

Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we spend tons of time earning money that we simply throw away, then we're throwing away part of our potential.

Freud said he did not know what a woman wanted. Most husbands say the same. Ready for it, guys? The answer is to be chosen. To be intensely desired. To be lusted after. A woman's primary need is to be desired.

it is far better to marry the right person at the wrong time than the wrong person at the right time.

The job of the parent is not to impose his or her will on the child, but to get the child to listen to his or her own inner voice. Inspiration, not just prescription.

That the real source of all true longing is the human desire to attach ourselves to something infinite.

Consider how the rich countries of the world are filled with hypocritical people. These are the people who complain about children who are starving in Somalia, and speak of the plight of youth in the inner city, speaking as though they are emotionally tortured by these tragedies. But then they refuse to do a thing about it. When they are approached by charities, they give only an infinitesimal fraction of their wealth.

It is said that when Alexander heard that the philosopher Diogenes was the smartest person in the world, he decided he must meet the man. So he went to Corinth, where Diogenes was contemplating his theories as he lay in the sun. Alexander stood over him and said, "I am Alexander, conqueror of worlds; put forward your request and it shall be done." Diogenes squinted up at him, shook his head, and said, "Just get out of my light.

Courtship is the time during which the girl decides whether or not she can do any better. Anonymous

Making peace with suffering shows we have no imagination and little spiritual purpose.

Women want to be chosen.

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.