"I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are."

“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.”

“Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.”

“Life has become a state of sensory overload.”

“In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.”

Source : Harry Kemelman (2015). “Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry”, p.52, Open Road Media

“We control the content of our dreams.”

“I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.”

Source : Helena Rutherfurd Ely (1999). “A Woman's Hardy Garden”

“There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons.”

Source : Celeste De Blasis (1985). “Wild Swan”, Bantam Books

“I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.”