One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

There are two types of stories: public and private.

I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

When you seek, you lead in discovery.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

I wasn't a club kid. I wasn't an artist. I was just a foreigner, trying to soak it all up. I had quite a lot of fun.

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

The most important time is Now

My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.

Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.