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

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

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?

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

Hope is the heartbeat of the soul~

Life should be used to fulfill the purposes of the Kingdom

Great music is a great remedy for depression, but you have to drink it in with your heart and mind.

The spirit of God is mighty upon us.

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.