It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.

We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.

It's not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow.

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

I don’t get writer's block because I don’t believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.

Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

I'm very romantic.

For people whose job it is to make sure we make money, there's a lot of pressure.

The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.

I'm the one twice over I'm the new eleven

Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.

Put your weird in your work!

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.