"Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye."

“The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.”

Source : "In Honor of Stamford’s 375th Anniversary - Many Faiths, One Community, Stamford Proud" by Rabbi Daniel Cohen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2016.

“genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.”

“There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.”

“There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.”

“I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.”

Source : "The Many Faces of Gustave Moreau" by Bennett Schiff, August 1999.

“I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!”

“God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.”

“As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.”