“Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.”

Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.

Scrabble – The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing – but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It’s like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

I don’t believe that prayers actually change God’s mind – if there is a God – but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.

Behavior shapes emotions.

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.

Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.

I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.

I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

Some say jealousy is a disease, and is so, we are two patients who can never be cured.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Far less envy in America than in France.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

I am jealous of the wind because she gets to touch you.

Anybody that’s got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that’s how I’ve always looked at it.