Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

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.

Not at all. Cooking is cool. I’ll make you one shaped like the moon.”“Why the moon?”“Because you remind me of the moon, ” he said, and looked into his bowl. Sarah blushed.

I look at life as an adventure. Each new chapter brings new opportunities.

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a feature scale.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.

He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.

and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.