“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.”

“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.”

“I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.”

“Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?”

“You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.”

“It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”

“The divine arts; Humankind, Nature, Stars, Sun, Moon, Sea....!”

“The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.”

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”