Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.