I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Sages are soldiers on the war on ignorance.

My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Al Gore invented the Internet.

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

Watch,witness,observe your thoughts-without any judgement,without any condemnation or evaluation.

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.