Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?

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?

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

There is a little bit of everybody in everybody.

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

You can't force people to buy a product, and then if they don't buy it, you fine them.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.

Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable.

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.