I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

Your purpose is more than just being happy, but it’s about making others to be blessed and happy.

Everything you are now seemed impossible at some point in your life.

Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees-breaking up isn't something that gets done to you

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.

It does not matter what happens when we have gone.

Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.

Friends don't let friends commit social suicide.