"I could never take the idea of religion very seriously."

"To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost."

"Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class."

"It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence."

"I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.'"

"Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse."

"Wisdom principle 94 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 59."

"It is a profound truth that every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below — an essential principle for the reflective life."