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

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith.

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