We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

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.

She's under duress, " Peaseblossom said."I don't care if she's under duress, over it, or alongside it, " Moth said. "Nothing in this world supersedes cake.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance".

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

My name has zero value.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

It is not up to the senators to determine whether an NGO is bogus or not

Some of us are more favorably disposed than others.

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.