My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.

Yiddish Proverb

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Lewis Thomas

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

Charles Olson

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co

Bertrand Russell

Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their moneys worth, except for these.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a friendhip with erotic moments.

Antonio Gala

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Sir Winston Churchill

Humor is tragedy plus time.

Mark Twain

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

Norman Jewison

The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish form our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in times of despair.

Bertrand Russell

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]

Opportunity creates desire.

Danish proverb