This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

I don't believe it pays to be a great author.

Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

Prayer is powerful, but prayer combined with action creates miracles.

If I can bring happiness to people all around the world, then I will try my best to do so.

I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

Tel Aviv is a dynamic international city with a lot of smart people, great fashion and food. I've met a lot of amazing people and there's this great energy everywhere.

It's basically the best job in the world. If you're fortunate enough - and I consider myself fortunate - you get to work with your friends and you get to work on projects that interest you.

Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.

With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."

I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.