The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.