Michael Novak

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.