I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class. It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.
Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.
One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.
Christians are made, not born.