One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. – Will Durant
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. – Will Durant
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, users manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things. – Jonathan Safran Foer
WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so its inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. – Christopher Hitchens