SOMETIMES being a friend MEANS mastering the ART of timing. There is a TIME for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own DESTINY. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move TOWARDS what they THINK is good... EVERYONE has his own idea of good and evil and MUST choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That WOULD be enough to make the world a better place.

Justice should REMOVE the bandage from her EYES long ENOUGH to distinguish between the vicious and the UNFORTUNATE.

I like to SOLVE problems. I know it is a SKILL set, but it's ALSO an obligation. I grew up with parents who BELIEVE that you don't simply complain: you try to find SOLUTIONS and fix what's in front of you.

KNOWLEDGE is POWER. INFORMATION is liberating. Education is the premise of PROGRESS, in every society, in every family.

Do not be ANXIOUS about TOMORROW, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the DAY's own TROUBLE be SUFFICIENT for the day.

A MAN of eighty has outlived probably three NEW SCHOOLS of painting, two of architecture and POETRY and a hundred in DRESS.

Life is WITHOUT MEANING. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being ALIVE is the meaning.

CHRIST does not SAVE US by ACTING a parable of divine LOVE; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

Be WARY of strong DRINK. It can MAKE you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

A lot of these people, these program DIRECTORS, just like anybody ELSE in the world, even though they're SUPPOSED to be LEADERS in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a TRAIL.

The MEANING of the UNIVERSE LIES OUTSIDE the universe.

HUMOR is just ANOTHER DEFENSE against the UNIVERSE.

When I was young, I admired CLEVER people. Now that I am OLD, I ADMIRE KIND people.

SINCE 1985, I have WRITTEN about contemporary JEWISH PRACTICE and the Jewish COMMUNITY.