Once a Jew always a Jew.

I have not given it [synagogue] up. Christianity is the completion of the synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise, and Christianity is the fulfillment of that promise.

What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests and even high prelates did things that will forever be an honor to Catholicism.

I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody.

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

The best advice I have been given is to live in the moment, as cliché as that sounds. It's crazy.

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

I think there is a spiritual hunger, and I think that people are really tired of getting kind of a two-dimensional take on religion in most of the media.

I'm not getting old I'm evolving.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.