My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the same needs and wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.

There's a deformity in the information that the public in the United Statesis receiving. It's contained in kind of a bubble and one day this bubble will explode.

The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married.

You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.

My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.

Time is the author of authors.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.

Well, I don't really eat cereal that much because on Weight Watchers it's not worth the points.

I should call myself four market Norton. I'm great in Boston and Cleveland. I do good in Phillie, New Jersey.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you.