[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she'd write it down.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Why not laugh again, and let your joy be my monument?

The sensation Ihad experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candle, leaving behind wisps of namelesslonging.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Listen to your dreams. They are the whispers of your heart telling you all you'll ever need to be happy.

Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.