"Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch."

“Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm... you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great.”

“Kirtan is food for the spirit, a life raft of song.”

“The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.”

“The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.”

“Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.”

“I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life.”

“The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!”

“In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good husband, an amiable man ... [T]here is no occasion at all for pitying Mrs. Gaon. ... Saints are happy in their suffering, and noble souls find their happiness in sacrificing themselves for these sufferers.”