“The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraor...” — Simon Schama Quote

“The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.”

“The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.”

“The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power.”

“Messi is just extraordinary.”

“I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God and I try to share it with as many people as possible. Having a great voice is not a merit. I don't think it is a merit.”

“When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.”