Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

I wasn't concerned, but I was thinking that the fastest way to get your mind off him and on me would be to tell you something truly appalling about him.

you rupturedthe love lakes of my longingand scattered the continents of my heart.

I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally.

Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

We are stronger together. We are stronger together in facing our internal challenges and our external ones.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.