Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

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?

Let the voice of the people be heard!

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.

Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

Why am I covered in feathers

The further you are from a problem, the smaller it gets.

A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.