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

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.

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.

Have the courage to walk away, those that value you will want you back, & those that do not won't hold you back.

It looks like a funeral parlour in here. Am I dead?

i witness the birth of the moon and her servants walking the night sky pulling us into their wake

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.