Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.