Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

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

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.