Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Leave the talking for others and live by walking. Go, go and go extra mile and you will be a true owner of what belongs to you

Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget.

Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.

In every mess I find a friend In every port a wife.

My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.

I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

No fox is foxier than man!