Pastoral Resources

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them.

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is but a phase of the world problem.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

I do think I'm a character actor.

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that.

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

Action is character.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.