"Shabbat is a day of rest, of mental scrutiny and of balance. Without it the workdays are insipid."

“Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.”

Source : Anne Ellis (1999). “The Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.”

“Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.”

“It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but my drug use challenged what I thought about cocaine. Because I would accept when I would say, "What happened to that person?" and someone would say, "They started using cocaine...they went downhill..." I would just accept that, even though I had a different experience and all these other people had a different experience. But I would throw that out because I thought my experience was an aberration.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela.”

Source : "Covering Hugo ChГЎvez: 'If Only He Ruled As Well As He Campaigned'". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. March 8, 2013.

“PEOPLE DIE. This is the fact the world desperately hides from us from birth. Long after you find out the truth about sex and Santa Claus, this other myth endures, this one about how you’ll always get rescued at the last second and if not, your death will at least mean something and there’ll be somebody there to hold your hand and cry over you. All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you’ll die, and you’ll probably be alone.”

“There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.”