You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors.

Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.

I think that there are laughs in all aspects of life. I'm not a planner; stuff comes along and you read it, and if it scares you or if you think, 'Oh my God, this is so good. I hope I don't screw it up,' then you should probably do it.