From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar

When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.

A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.

All my movies are about people with some ideology, but guess what? It never works out.

I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

The good is the end toward which all things tend.

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.