American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.

The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.

You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?

Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.

When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.