A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

There is no disinfectant like success.

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.