"Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith."

“I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.”

“A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.”

“I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution”

“Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation.”

Source : Shel Israel (2009). “Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods”, p.14, Penguin

“He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. -But, then, lovers have a proverbial power of balancing inverted pyramids, going to sea in sieves, and successfully performing other kindred feats impossible to a faithless and unbelieving generation.”

“That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.”

“I see loyalty - roughly perseverance in relational commitments despite the cost of such perseverance - as an important human value/virtue. Think of it as a kind of relational glue.”

Source : "Ethics, Law and Politics". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com.

“Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.”