Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

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?

I wish you great fun with your sacred adventure.

It is only by ignoring fact, science, and reason that one can support current Republican positions.

And I'd started thinking about my mother's last weeks--the way she'd drifted listlessly about the house in her dressing gown, cigarettes in one hand, glass of something strong-smelling in the other.

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

Death is an endless retirement with a pension of nothingness.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

You can't beat a nice glass of Chardonnay after a really long, hard day.