Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.
It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.
In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!
[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.
The Hebrew language. . . is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time. . . . It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.
Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being.
A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought. . . Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination. He firmly believed in the significance of reviving the Arab spirit and protecting the freedom of thought and the freedom of human conscience.
Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.
Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.