At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Where there is passion, there is possibility.

Everything we say or don't say makes an imprint on our child's heart.

Life is chemistry, not biology.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

I don't think there's a problem with people discovering the music unless there's no way to get to them. That's the problem that you always have.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

I'm an utterly average, total geek.

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn't enough Torah study.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.