I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young.

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?

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.

I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He's amazing - obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He's really something.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

Stop looking for love and start showing it.

Thanks to you, I always am so happy. Now I want to give you all the happiness on your birthday.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.