Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened.

He doesn't teach you what to think, he teaches you how to think

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.

Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.

When you say "Yes" to something, you include something you do want in your experience. When you say "No" to something, you include something you don't want in your experience.

If your're not having a very good time with your life, its because you haven't done much for others. You may have done many things but you havent done much for those around you.

May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

I've moved on with my life and I'm trying to find a path to re-establish my career.

With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.