It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

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?

We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me.

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. Trust your intuition and don't ask "why", just say no.

When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.

How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m a lover, he’s a fighter!” Virtue - A Fairy Tale

A Big Wave is like a Beautiful Woman.....exciting to look at and thrilling to ride.

I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way.

I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.