I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.
I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.
I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.
I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.
If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.
Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace. ' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax. '
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.
My fun days are over.
I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.
Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.
Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small degree, it is only to the extent that he is willing to make himself known. A man will say: I am cold. Or else he will say nothing, and we will see him shivering. Either way, we will know that he is cold. But what of the man who says nothing and does not shiver? Where all is intractable, here all is hermetic and evasive, one can do no more than observe. But whether one can make sense of what he observes is another matter entirely