The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.
Modesty is not one of my virtues.
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator. . . Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!
It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.
Most people don't know what they're talking about. They move their mouth and say things because they don't want to admit they don't know. Or they think they know, but it's just confabulation and biases. So ignore them unless what they say resonates with some real wisdom inside of you. Assume they're a fool and find out the truth for yourself.
Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.
There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.