When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others with love.

It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.

Jews have been circumcising their boys for thousands of years, and suddenly we are accused of tormenting our children.

We Jews really don't need any tutoring in democracy.

You keep right on building that fence, Faye. See what good it does you.

Stress is not about carrying the burden yourself but, failure to set your priorities straight”.

Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.

I had a mother complex going on and I was projecting all my negative mother stuff onto her and all of my need for her to love me and to make me whole and to approve of me.

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.