I think people who love each other and live together and have children together need to agree on the things that are most important in life.

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.

Together we shared a bond not even death would violate.

True greatness is not about the number of people who serve you. It's about why and how you serve the number of people you serve.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen wind and weather permitting.

Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.

I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning.

Rumble is the best instrumental ever.

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.