The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative, reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists-we follow the Talmud. It is our common Law.

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off.

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

Write a page a day. It will add up.