In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.

We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.

It's not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow.

It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

Her heart was telling her to trust him, but it wouldn’t be the first time that that foolish muscle, there in the middle of her chest, had betrayed her.

Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.

I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

I accidentally produced a Willow Smith track!