I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

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

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

Audiences are audiences.

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.