A precisely made iron chain 22 yards in length consisting of 100 links.

A precisely made iron chain 22 yards in length consisting of 100 links.

I always believe that my greatest audience will come from 70-year-old Jewish men and Jewish women, but that's me from my experience of going to High Holiday services and being adored by the women with free candy in the back.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

Work hard and wait for the fulfillment of future events.

Heels and lipstick will put the fear of God into people.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.

I think there's an innocence to me.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

I sang with a voice that was natural, and I liked the way I produced that sound. I thought of my other friends, that they were singing and dancing, but they didn't have this. I was special.

You can't look forward and backward at the same time.

Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable ... for us, forever just won't do.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

I don't like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.

The more you know, the less you need.

What punishments of God are not gifts?

I'm particularly impressed by the creation of the character of Spock, which really was Leonard Nimoy's singular creation. He used everything he had.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction was to write fiction. But I was much less suited for it. I always struggled to figure out what people were saying or doing in a particular moment.

The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.

I dare somebody to go to Atlanta and not have a good time.