A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it. The odds are that it will fall into a regular metrical pattern.

I know the moment you died, Jesus' face was smiling on you, Welcoming you into His glorious city of gold. I know you are enjoying the incredible light and peace of His presence right now

Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so your

You must love and care for yourself because that's when the best comes out.

You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.

Go out of your way to make an outstanding first impression.