My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

Patience is a virtue as they say and listening is an exercise in patience.

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

I was lifted from the darkness I endured into the person I am today.

I want to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

Growing up, I used to watch Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, All in the Family. Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, McMillan and Wife and Columbo.

When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.