Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.

I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.

Think a hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave it is not in his nature.

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.

Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

The fact that Cornish exists at all is just incredible as is the work that people are doing down there, it's such an important part of who people are.

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'