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.

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.

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?

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

A road often travelled has heavy traffic and you take more time to reach the destination.

Never give up on learning unless you are tired of growing and willing to settle for less.

It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees.

In nature there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy falsehood and deceit.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.