In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.

There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

Is there anybody alive out there?

Men are immortal till their work is done.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.