I think Jews are the smartest people in the world

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

Having words opened up a world of possibilities for Martha.

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.

If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

All wars are waged against children

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

You want to picture yourself being on top and doing amazing gymnastics.

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.