Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.
Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.
The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit of faith should be evident in our lives, for being a Christian is more than making sound professions of faith. It should reveal itself in practical and visible ways. Indeed it is better to keep quiet about our beliefs, and live them out, than to talk eloquently about what we believe, but fail to live by it.
Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.
A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.