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I'm a Zionist who believes that every person has to have a country of their own.
— Ruth Westheimer
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
— Woodrow Wilson
At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.
— Oscar Wilde
Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.
— Anonymous
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.
— Samuel Johnson
The End of every maker is himself.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
— Thomas Merton
There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.
— Andrew Jackson
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
— Francis de Sales
In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.
— Walt Whitman
"You are accepted!" ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now, perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything, perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything, do not perform anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.
— Paul Tillich