Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

You must never tire fighting Satan.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

There’s no such thing as yesterday, he thought dully. Memory is just today, happening over and over again, stamped indelibly with regret.

Where would I be (and what would happen to me), if I could see all round me and above and below at once ?

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

I love change, and I love changing my hair. But it was strange to look in the mirror and think 'Who is this girl?'

The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

"This isn’t really death," Tyler says, "We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old." I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.

I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.

The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.