Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

Dare to dream... and when you dream, dream big.

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

The Jewish heart has always starved unless it was fed through the Jewish intellect.

The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity.

I would exchange everything for one child of my own.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.

I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.

Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.

He’d pleasured Hera and a few thousand others, and when Hera learned about those thousand others…heads had rolled.

I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.