To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

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?

I sang in my chains like the sea

Around our enthusiasm, are the ways to surround our destinies.

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the "soul questions": Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.

Success and all good things in life, start with a genuine concern for others.

When I met with Deepak Chopra, instead of asking him for something, I offered something. You can always think of things that are not really any costs to you that still have a huge benefit.

All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.