The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, read more

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious read more

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.