Michael Novak

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

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

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

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.

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.

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.