"Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger."

"The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once."

"If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting."

"If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs."

"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."

"He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation."

"When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'"

"God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'"