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“Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.”
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“We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts”
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“You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.”
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“Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.”
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“For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.”
Source : "Obama’s Speech: Guns and Government" by Amy Davidson Sorkin, www.newyorker.com. February 12, 2013. 
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“There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...”
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“I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.”
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“Here," she said. "This is for you." "I didn't really get you anything," I sputtered. "I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and--" "Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.”
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“Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.”
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“If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
