"I read the Bible every day."

“The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.”

“America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.”

“Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.”

Source : "Joy Shtick". Interview with Kevin Kelly, Spencer Reiss, www.wired.com. August 1, 1998.

“I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.”

Source : Ethel Merman, Pete Martin (1955). “Who Could Ask for Anything More: As Told to Pete Martin”

“As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.111, Hachette UK

“...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.”

“Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.”

“People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.”