"I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means may appear different, the ends are the same."

“I had a lot of challenges losing the weight. I still haven't lost the weight yet and I don't plan on going back to the body I used to be at. I love my sexy curves!”

“You're asking somebody who has a wife and is really happily married, 'So, what's your next wife going to be like?' And I'm like, 'What?'”

Source : "Man and Uber man" by Kara Swisher, www.vanityfair.com. December 2014.

“It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.”

“This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.”

“I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.”

“If you ask me:"An openly homosexual teacher can work as a teacher? I say no. (...) I'll not do anything to discriminate you, but I'll also not do anything to put your type of relationship on the same level of the natural family.”

“There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The eternity of the spirit does not begin after death ... but is, like God, always present.”

Source : Moses Hess (1943). “The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press