Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success.

The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

Holy One is a flame.

No matter how hard you try to be a good person, to make choices that will lead to success, nothing is promised. Even the good and the innocent are damned from time to time.

Let them have guns' is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as 'Let them have drugs' is a solution to drug addiction.

When asked how long I've worked here I replied "since the day they threatened to fire me."

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people, merely because they were the first to take the path along which all the others were ultimately to follow.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.