The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

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.

Creation is always an act of affirmation, a lust for life or activity, a restlessness accompanied by art. That art is what pleases and invigorates and mystifies me.

Social hierarchy doesn’t hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

Every artist has a very particular sound and style.

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

Who goes from America to Africa for medical attention?

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

I think you have to proactively seek out things that inspire you and consume as much of those things as possible.

While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.