Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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?

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.

Scripture, empowered by God’s Spirit, is the instrument that brings people to salvation.

No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to understand these attitudes in the electorate.

Your playing is like salt water taffy. You see all the beautiful colors, red, yellow, blue, but they all taste the same.

You're never too old to be crazy.

You cannot have security at the expense of the insecurity of others.

Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.

A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.

The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.