A Pole is a man born with a sword in his right hand, a brick in his left. When the battle is over, he starts to rebuild. - James A. Michener

Again and again he pleaded with his listeners to be generous, and the joke was circulated through Safed: “Rabbi Zaki wants more than anything else in the world to give things away … especially his daughters.

then it occurred to him that a worthy man dedicates himself not to one particular thing which attracts him, but to all tasks; and he

Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door.