It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.