Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

Love is the miracle of divinity.

To be somebody you must last.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.

I was at a New Year's Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, 'I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,' and I actually meant it.

Anyone who isn't confused doesn't understand what's going on.

We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.

Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.

Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.