"I am a human being. I am not an actor."

“Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard.”

“Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.”

“That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker.... Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We're all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint.”

Source : Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.103, Jewish Lights Publishing

“I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings.”

“People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.”

“My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.”

“Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.”

Source : Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

“You know,” Cole said. “My mom once told me a boy would know he’d become a man when he stopped putting himself first. She said a girl would come along and I wouldn’t be able to get her out of my mind. She said this girl would frustrate me, confuse me, and challenge me, but she would also make me do whatever was necessary to be a better man–the man she needed. With you, I want to be better. I want to be what you need. Tell me what you need.”