Anyone can be happy when times are good; the richer experience is to be happy when times are not

I want to be happy because it is beneficial for me but also because I want to be a messenger of happiness to my friends and family.

Being creative is not being afraid of being lost.

History is written by the victors. Legends are woven by the people. Writers fantasize. Only death is certain."To Die for One's Country is Glorious, " p. 131

Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?It doesn't.

The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.

I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

the brain, the mind, and all the things that happen inside it, it's a very erogenous zone.