When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

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.

The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.

Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when pierced by a certain light.

My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.

People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.