Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.

Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor.

As I tell my children, 'If you are going to do something, do your best while you're doing it.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.

Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.

I think a myth is created from truth.

Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.

No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.