Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

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?

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

By day, Ian was like the stars, there but not there. At night was when the beasts of grief came for her.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.

We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.

People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.