Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.

Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?

Did you ever meet a mother that complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither.

As for blondes having more fun, well, let me dispel that rumor forever. They do.

My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.

Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.

Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.

I've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right, then generally speaking, so am I.

I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation.

A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.

What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations.

anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.

The majestic mountain is swimming in the eternal lake of beauty, love, and tranquility.

Relax and rejuvenate your sacred-spirit.

The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold." Question: What's the probability they will kiss?

You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.

Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may be.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.