Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

When you look up and don’t see the stars, the universe may have cleared the sky for you to replace them.

In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.

People who have the most birthdays live the longest.

I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.

Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.

Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

I can’t even take a stroll through a park. As soon as women see my face they start gathering up their children and running for home.