Living isn't always red bows and birthday balloons.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

One who has unreliable friends may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, build on to that which is already excellent.

It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.

If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.

I guess one gets the face one deserves.

Travel light and trust in serendipity.

We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.

Better the anger of a friend than the kiss of an enemy.

I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.