We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times...and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never feel that you are alone, as someone is always be your side.

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.-Louis Pasteur

you're so full of shit, you ought to be a cow manure

I won't do that when I'm a parent. I'll make different mistakes, of course.

Great loves too must be endured.

It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.

A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.

There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.

Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"