On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

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 you love everyone without judging them, then you will never be able to find an enemy.

When I look at the Church today, not just in Africa but worldwide, it seems to me that we have come to love darkness even if we are called Church or some other religious names.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

Forget the brother and resume the man.

My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.

I love trees I have this thing for trees and the colors & changing of leaves. I love it I respect these kinds of things.

If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.