Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.

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?

The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws.

Wonder ... music heard in the heart is voiceless.

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.

History punishes those that come late to it.