I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

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.

Good times make the bad times better.

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.

Cute? I think my testosterone level just dropped - Ranger

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

Whenever I feel nervous, I feel like I have to poop.

I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.