Daniel Lubetzky

“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”

- Henry Kissinger

"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food."

                                                                                                          – Hippocrates

This quote is anonymous, shared with me by my sister, Ileana:

"I love you so much more today than I did yesterday, and yet, I never loved you any less."

In an environment of scarcity, relationships move from transactional to strategic.

- From my friend David Kamenetzky, Executive Board Member at MARS Incorporated

When Tamar at OneVoice read my Trinity commencement speech, she pointed me to these beautiful and far richer words from Rainer Maria Rilke:

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

                                                     – From Letters to a Young Poet, Letter Four (16 July 1903), (as translated by Stephen Mitchell)

Also notable:

“No one can advise or help you — no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”

“I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.”

The following quote came from a woman name Penelope, who I met at Trinity this past weekend:

“Courage is not the absence of fear; courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear.  Far more important than fear is voice: having it and using it on behalf of those who don’t yet have the privilege of it.”

This quote was shared with me by Arie Lubezky:

"A brand is a promise.  A great brand is a promise kept."

Samer, the Executive Director of OVP saw this near his village and shared it because it really captures the challenges of how Palestinians and Israelis are attending to the conflict:

“We are living in a fantasy, they are living in denial.”

Fortune favors the bold.

   – Virgil

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”

                                                  -James Dean