The best way to celebrate the holidays is with some delicious food.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Abraham Cahan

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Jay Leno

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

Herman Wouk

I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man's debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume his actual crimes as if they were your own; for one thing you did not commit them and might have died rather than do so; for another this impossible action would rob him of individual responsibility. So the whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out the ethical principles for ourselves.

Christopher Hitchens

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Rene Descartes

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Naveen Jain

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

Finley Peter Dunne

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

Hans Selye