Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

You don’t know the sacrifice behind the success!

Don't compete for the moment, compete for the future.

It's funny --- sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

I don't know of any issues associated with alcohol before flight.

You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.