There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.

None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are special, you won't seek to contribute your gift to the world.

Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.

My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.

Women want to be chosen.

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

Like a good-looking John Merrick, mine was a face that looked really shit.

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

Not all of me shall die.

I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be--an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories.

The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.