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.

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.

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?

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex.

I love being alone when I Know Somebody make you smile.

When you're as great as I am it's hard to be humble.

It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it's really tough.

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.