Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy—degeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill.

People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.

There's so much energy exchange [in conduction], so you get back a lot, of course, but you also have to give a lot. It's kind of high-energy thing.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.

You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.