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

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

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

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.

Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL.

I've worked on the urban agenda all my life. All. My. Life.

Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too.

Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?