Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

I wanted to own a junk yard as a child, you know. I used to smash cars and think, 'Oh, my God, there's been an accident.' My mother would take me to junk yards, and I look back on that and I think, 'Wow, that was really loving.'

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.