If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

Follow your purpose with integrity. Live your passion with integrity. If you don't have integrity you live in fear, and as far as I'm concerned living in fear is not enjoying life.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.

I love walking onto the set and the blindfold is taken off and then everything I do is fresh and in the moment. That's why I loved working with Darren Aronofsky.

What's wrong with transforming food?

Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.