Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

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?

Days may pass into months, months may pass into years, and years may pass into decades, but I will always keep waiting for you.

You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

One of the effects of the gospel going deeper into our souls is that it frees our fingers to loosen their grasp on our goods.

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

Always persevere, always have a great perspective, and always have great purpose in your life

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.