The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.