My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I."

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

I hope the guy who came up with the phrase 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll' rots in hell, I'd like to change it so it makes more sense: 'sex death and rock 'n' roll'