[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

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.

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.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface...

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

It’s hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get published and very dangerous.

The gospel word of the day can become like a painting on the walls. of your inner room, the inner room that is your heart.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

To have a human form is a joyful thing.