But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure.

I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.

Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake.

Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.

A riverless silence made the air heavy.

Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse. This is what racism can do to people.

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.

We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.

I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20 years ago I read four or five books of his and it helped me.

You attract the good and desirable with positive mental attitude. You repel them with negative mental attitude.