We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking.

Crowds speak in heroes.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

I didn't choose Goldberg because I wanted to be the flagship for the Jewish movement, not by any stretch of the imagination. I chose Goldberg because no one else can own it.

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

At one point he decided enough was enough.