In life, nothing happens to you. It happens for you.

Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it’s a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.

It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.

I think he's looking for comfort, but I don't have any to give.

I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

I do like Guinness, I have to say, because you feel like you're eating something.

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

I don't want a wig that looks like a wig; I want one that could pass for a weave.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.