"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

"The best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them"

"It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there."

"So it's always a process of letting go, one way or another"

"I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again."

"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."

"A multitude of small delights constitute happiness"

"The beautiful is always bizarre."

"A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesses in order to overcome them. It is hard for a person to understand his own weaknesses."

"In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival."

"Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat."

"We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces."

"We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot."

"Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special."

"My stepson is a caring, considerate, worthy human being."

"I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better."

"I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it."

"Us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won't seem so bad."

"There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form."

"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."

"The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter."

"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

"Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them."

"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."