Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

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?

Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.

Some dark Presence watching by my bed, The awful image of a nameless dread ―

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.

When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.

There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.