Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.

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.

While you numb, nuts are chasing pokemons, I'll be chasing the money.

The path is here, " he said quietly. "But you are free to walk it or choose another way.

Please. Thank you. Learn it. Love it. Or be disappointed.

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.

Make it look like your skin is not so angry at you for your bad life choices.

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.

I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.

In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.

I went to the dentist. He said "Say Aaah." I said "Why?" He said "My dog's died."