How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.