The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Jewish from Poland, or Jewish from Hungary.

The Quran is many different things, and we also have to see the Quran almost as a secondary source commenting on the Old Testament.

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

I don't want to test that simple sense of being human. I don't want to transform it.

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.