"Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him."

“Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.”

“I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.”

Source : "Taran Killam on the SNL Christmas Show". Interview with Terron Moore, www.esquire.com. December 20, 2013.

“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”

“... it has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior. When once I believed in doing a thing, nothing could prevent my doing it.”

“Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.”

Source : David Dreman (2012). “Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

“I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn't do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We owe the ancestors that. So many of the souls who died in bondage just want us to recognize their struggle.”

“I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.”

“Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.”