Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

God entrusts His riches to mature sons and not to spiritual babies.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

I learned failure early and mastered it.

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.

It's just a spare room in my apartment. It's very cluttered and not particularly aesthetically inspiring, and it's very un-noise-proof.

Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads.