I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

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.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

Look deeper and you can find some stuff which will amaze you!

I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.

There's a utility in the democracy refreshing itself on an ongoing basis.

There should be no censorship of mail.

My choice is what I choose to be.

My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

Yesterday's success belongs to yesterday.