A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.

[But] I fear that in the individual lives of all but a few, the balance is in debit - we do so little that is positive good, even if we negatively avoid what is actively evil.

To express open creativity, you first need to create your own space of seclusion.

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.

The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality.

I take references from the past and flip them.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!