"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

“There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills.... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know.”

“We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.”

“Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.”

Source : Joey Adams (1981). “Strictly for laughs”, A & W Publishers, Inc.

“Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in ... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me. It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.”

Source : "The forgotten supermodel" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2009.

“Unanimity is always stupid.”

Source : "A mulher que Amou Demais" by Nelson Rodrigues, Published br Companhia das Letras, (p. 13), 2003.

“In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.”

Source : "Edgar Bronfman, philanthropist and Jewish communal leader, dies at 84". www.jta.org. December 21, 2013.

“Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your body’s frailties and conflicts and general revolt, and then one day your body is not separate any more. You’ve in a sense become the piano or the dance or the word or the prayer. The prayer is in your heart. The prayer is your heart.”

Source : Heather King (2015). “Stripped: At the Intersection of Cancer, Culture, and Christ”, p.38, Loyola Press

“Go big, or go home. Otherwise, you’re wasting your youth.”