when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

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.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.

Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.

Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.