Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

[Vladimir] Putin needs wars to legitimize his position.

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.

I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven.

Nobody roots for people who presume success. You have to earn success, and success is earned by making a movie that audiences like and want to see more of.

The Word of God will bring you into a wonderful place of rest in faith.