Jonathan

“As often happens in large families, the Morgenthau siblings divided along age lines. They paired up in alliances, squared off in rivalries.”
― Andrew Meier, Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty

“Within a year, he had discovered it: Harlem, in particular 125th and 126th streets, the broad prospects lined with shops and row houses. “Nearly all of Harlem was for sale,” Henry remembered. Block after block of the stone and brick houses built a decade earlier had passed to mortgagees, while those who owned the houses were “thoroughly discouraged and could see little hope in the future.”
― Andrew Meier, Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty

“Judaism’s solution to the “happiness problem” is to view happiness as a thought, making it an infinitely renewable resource, always at our disposal, rather than an existential lottery ticket.”
― Mendel Kalmenson, People of the Word: Fifty Words That Shaped Jewish Thinking

“was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. Reality is nonlinear, Zen says. No future, no past. All is now.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog