It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

When you're looking that far out you're giving people their place in the universe it touches people. Science is often visual so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry it touches you.

One little person giving all of her time to peace makes news. Many people giving some of their time can make history.

The Palestinians want a state but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should that should fail.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes but due to one side giving up.

Because I know about the Holy Land I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year or next year but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them to events or objects in the world.