I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.

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?

I live in the paradise of my imagination.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

One thing which frustrates me about state pensions is the disparity between EU countries.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.