The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".

Sydney J. He became a member of the editorial staff of the Chicago Daily News in 1941 and began his column in 1944. He attended high school with Saul Bellow who was his lifelong friend.

Sydney J. His weekday column “Strictly Personal” was syndicated in many newspapers throughout the United States and Canada.