The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Alexander Dumas

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Russell Banks

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

Xun Zi

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

Tony Campolo

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

Tim Gunn

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Samuel Ullman

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Rabindranath Tagore

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

Michelle Rodriguez

She was stronger alone

Jane Austen

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

John L. Mcclenahan

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Mark Twain

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

Dalai Lama