Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart.

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.

Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.