"Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?"

-- Leonard Bernstein

“A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: â€œGo.â€”

Source : Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.7, Mercer University Press
“If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint for us scores and scores of his manifestly impossible pictures ... and Shakespeare will lie to us of fabulous islands far past 'the still-vex'd Bermoothes,' and bring us fresh tales from the coast of Bohemia. For no one will speak the truth there, and we shall all be perfectly happy.”
“What's important is that I'm working with very talented young people.”
“That's where I take all my inspiration from is my own life and experiences, things I enjoy and am a fan of.”
“Be a leader, not a superior.”
“We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.”
“Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.”
“Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen.”

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