To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.