Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Yesterday is done. Today has just begun. I am not going let anyone's negative issues do anything to me other than inspire me to do better.

As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, “Aye, Sir. Course laid in” is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.

Golf is a good preoccupation but as the meaning of life ... it lacks a few things.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

My dads music was a great inspiration to me.

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information access interferes with that.

The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.