The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.

To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.