Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.
I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But a man cannot escape being part of a milieu - and a recognizable part - unless he flees naked to a cave, never to return. The sensible thing is to use hard thinking to find the right way to live and then to live that way. What matters is living with dignity, with decency, and without fear.
Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.
I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance. '
. . (T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.
When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.
As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.