#d

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#contentment #attitude

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. ↗

— Golda Meir

#ideals #most #realistic #regime #soviet

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. ↗

— Golda Meir

#better #find #never #partner #sparring

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#autism #believe #children #could #deserve

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#always #being #character #coat #different

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#about #being #comedy #complaining #feelings

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#agree #god #knowing #live #lives

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#adherence #am #because #grounded #hard

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#any #appeared #back #going #haven

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#enjoy #forth #goes #i #pancakes