To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

These are the moments for which we live.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.

Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.