Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.

Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?"(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)

The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.

Blood calls to blood.

I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

On a personal level, I don't have many individual achievements.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.