As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

One man gathers what another man spills

All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.

I hate love. Hate being in love. I never want it to happen to me again.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.

Our Scripture awakened that most glorious of things, the spontaneous love our Lord so desires His children to bear Him, for it is what He bears them.

It's strange how quickly the significance of of a certain smell can change, depending on what path it decides to take through the brain. It's strange how close love and fear live to each other.

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically.

I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent