In my world, history comes down to language and art.

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.

Those who do not preach life but live it do not smile to the lily near the bank

Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

Persistence is what keeps you hanging on when hanging on gets tough.

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer - feeling a soul is more important than what the body can do.

I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the benefit of all those other users' problems and solutions.

I wanted alot of tattoos but I never thought I was gonna be this rediculous.