"Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word “collectible” as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success. " ~~ Fran Lebowitz
"Great is the pain of bringing up sons, and greater of bringing up daughters." ~~ Shalom Aleichem
"Godfearingness will keep you far from sin." ~~ Ben Sira 1:21
"No labor, however humble, dishonors a man." ~~ Talmud, Nedarim 49b
"Literature is the safest key to a nation’s treasure. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"If a poor man asks for alms, and you have nothing to give, console him with words; for it is forbidden to chastise a poor man or raise your voice against him, since his heart is broken." ~~ Maimonides
"Who declines to endow a scholar with his worldly goods will see no blessing." ~~ Talmud, Sanhedrin
"Wisdom is an attribue of age." ~~ Job (Iyov) 12:12
"If you do not sow, how will you harvest?" ~~ Safra
"Old age is the mother of forgetfulness." ~~ Yehuda Ben Tibbon
"To hate Israel is to hate God…To rise against Israel is to rise against God…To help Israel is to help God." ~~ Sifre Num., #84
"A clown may be first in the kingdom of heaven, if he has helped lessen the sadness of human life." ~~ Rabbi Baroka in Talmud
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