No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

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.

Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.

We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.

Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it.

I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

I know that I have the potential. And the opportunities. But I don't say: "I want to win the Australian Open in 2018." It doesn't work that way.

I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.

I was a pizza delivery man. I worked at a gas station. I worked a lot of jobs, man. A lot of jobs.

The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.