We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

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.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

I'm never afraid, never fear anything.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money.

Formulate a specific game plan... the specific steps in making your intention come to life.