It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

Our lives were now worlds apart, separated by time, circumstance, and the unbridgeable chasm of money.

There is so much evil in emphasizing too much miracles.

When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom.

The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.

This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.

A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

What we can't do in heaven is sin and witness. And obviously God didn't leave us here to sin.