Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.

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?

People who do not value you are worthless and those who do are priceless.

Greaser ' didn't have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn't have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn't have. It's the individual.

Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one.

Life is an incurable disease.

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

No pro football player should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken.

The world needs another vehicle to get people to pay in cash.