Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if it's worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.