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

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.

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

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.

The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world free from struggle.

Their pull was undeniable, like fireworks on top of flaming bonfires.

The purpose and point of this life is to learn and love – and it may be more specifically to learn to love.

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.

The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.

Whoever invented the spork should be killed.

You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.