The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?

To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.

The town isn't big enough for two homicidal maniacs.

There is no such thing as a difficult dog, only an inexperienced owner.

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

Look at Israel. Israel is a great country for examples on how to do security.

There are a lot of things about my career now that are as I imagined, hoped for and worked towards.

If God wants it, it will happen.

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.