There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

Look, fundamentally there are two sets of questions that apply in the war against terrorism. The one set of questions deals with the, "Where is it going to happen? What's going to happen? When is it going to happen?" The other set of questions deals with, "What is it that our enemy, the terrorists, are trying to achieve?" What are they trying to induce us to do?