“In some way, however, small and secret, each of us is a little mad. Everyone is lonely at bottom and cries to be understood; but we can never entirely understand someone else, and each of us remains part stranger even to those who love us."
- Leo Rosten
"It is the weak who are cruel; gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
- Leo Rosten
"The purpose of life is to matter—-to count, to stand for something, to have it make some difference that we lived at all."
- Leo Rosten