I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

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.

Early on I quickly realized I'd never be the fastest or the strongest, but not once have I entertained the notion I couldn't be one of the toughest.

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.

Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

I would be psyched to get a phone call from Al Sharpton. I need to find out who does his hair. It's beautiful. It's a gorgeous mane.

To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life.

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.