Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

Ron Ben-Israel

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

Andrew Cuomo

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Nikita Khrushchev

We are confronted with the incompatible claims of Jerusalem and Athens to our allegiance. We are open to both and willing to listen to each. We ourselves are not wise but we wish to become wise. We are seekers for wisdom, philo-sophoi.

Leo Strauss

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

C.S. Lewis

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

James A. Baldwin

Hello, boys. How are you all? I just love boys. Hello. Are you here alone? Who are you with?...A woman? At my show?...We'll make believe. It's theatre.

Harvey Fierstein

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished

Titus Livy

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

Elizabeth Edwards

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.

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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

Liev Schreiber