The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness.

Zoroaster

I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this reason, I have never been able to see Zionism as a cure for it. American and British and French Jews have told me with perfect sincerity that they are always prepared for the day when 'it happens again' and the Jew-baiters take over. (And I don't pretend not to know what they are talking about: I have actually seen the rabid phenomenon at work in modern and sunny Argentina and am unable to forget it.) So then, they seem to think, they will take refuge in the Law of Return, and in Haifa, or for all I know in Hebron. Never mind for now that if all of world Jewry settle in Palestine, this would actually necessitate further Israeli expansion, expulsion, and colonization, and that their departure under these apocalyptic conditions would leave the new brownshirts and blackshirts in possession of the French and British and American nuclear arsenals. This is ghetto thinking, hardly even fractionally updated to take into account what has changed. The important but delayed realization will have to come: Israeli Jews are the diaspora, not a group that has escaped from it. Why else does Israel daily beseech the often-flourishing Jews of other lands, urging them to help the most endangered Jews of all: the ones who rule Palestine by force of arms? Why else, having supposedly escaped from the need to rely on Gentile goodwill, has Israel come to depend more and more upon it? On this reckoning, Zionism must constitute one of the greatest potential non sequiturs in human history.

Christopher Hitchens

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

Paul Simon

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Sam Walton

I have a great faith in God and Jesus.

Ernie Harwell

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value.

Tony Meloto (Your First Job by:

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Natalie Goldberg

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.

Andrew Wolfe

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.

LL Cool J