Everything you do with Palestinians in Israel someone will criticize.

The most important thing for me is the tone, the feeling, the pace. But why I'm doing this is not very clear to me. It's much more of an instinctual thing than an analytical process.

Start from your heart. The greatest journeys begin on the inside.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

I'm less amazed with your success and more with how you remain unaffected by what it brings with it.

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.