I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

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.

The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.