When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.

You save your soul by saving someone else's body.

I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.

If you're going to be working, you might as well work with passion and give it all you've got.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Tomorrow belongs to those who learn today.

It seemed like an interesting movie [Independence Day], and I thought I had a take on the part that was going to be unique. That doesn't happen to me very often.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

I like to laugh. I like to have a good time. I don't like to be so serious about things, so I would want a guy who would want to laugh and have a good time, too.

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year, The earth is hell when you leav'st to appear.