There was certainly an old law code which stands behind the earliest form of Deuteronomy. Presumably that is what was lost.

We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it.

My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.

The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him. He can no longer even communicate. That's the Tower of Babel.

Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one God in an abstract philosophical way.

I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve a new innocence, a new naiveté.

I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

With the Hebrew Bible, you're living in an austere world.

There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament which way one deals primarily with Biblical material.

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

The sustaining taste of victory can never be replaced by the cold metal of a trophy.

Find out who you really are, then accept who you are. Fight for your life every day to be who you are.

I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors

I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.

When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.

I brought Bhagawad Gita as a gift for the Japanese PM...I don't have anything better than Gita to give & nor does the World has anything better to receive.

Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God.