I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

Sometimes small things lead to great joys.

On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer.

It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free.

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

Words used to be all I had. Now even they have deserted me.

Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone!

There's a difference between the way I see it and the character's interpretation of the events, so the rules within the film are the rules within the film.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

I went to a garage sale. 'How much for the garage' 'It's not for sale.'

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.