The dog that trots about finds a bone.

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?

He suddenly saw the enterprise of literature as essentially mad.

All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world insincerity is the most dangerous.

If only the people around you know youre an artist, then youre doing something wrong.

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.

Nothing changes, until you change. Everything changes, once you change

I'm still exploring in a lot of ways. I don't know myself completely.

Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.