Growth takes place in a person by working at a deep inner level in a sustained atmosphere of silence.
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the. . . most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.
No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
A man who treats his women like a princess is proof that he was raised by a queen.
Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.
But she was already in. Gareth couldn't help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete. Either that or a cat burglar.
Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.