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 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.

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.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

Kind heart, kind soul.

Don’t wish the world demanded less of you. Rise up and exceed its standards.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.

The more you know the less the better.

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

No,you're officially banned from listening to us. Or thinking about this. Or even thinking about thinking about this, understand?