Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

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.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

The best things in life are free

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.

When it draws near to witching time of night.

I'd rather make 50 percent of something than 100 percent of nothing.

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.