The Jewish Wisdom Database

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Remember-you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.