For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

Dry snow coming down in the hills. Magpies hair-triggered and thuggish in worn trees. A wall has started to fall in you, it will take years to land.

If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

At Death we are aware that we are more than just our physical bodies.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

Allow not nature more than nature needs.