The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

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?

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.

That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

If you had all the world's information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you'd be better off.

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.