Showing all results

1. Meet In the Middle
Illustration
Leo Rosten
Plans were made to dig a tunnel under the English Channel. The bidding for the tunnel contract was fierce and competitive. Murray Liebowitz surprised everyone when he and his son won the bidding. His friends weren't sure that he was up to the challenge. "Murray," they exclaimed, "do you realize that the tunnel must be at least twenty five miles long? That's not easy!" "Easy, schmeezy!" Murray re...

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

Showing 1 to 6 of 6all results