We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).

The saving of the Jews in Europe did not figure at the head of the list of priorities of the ruling class. It was the foundation of the State which was primordial in their eyes.

While we see democracy coming to the Arab world, democracy is getting weaker in Israel. Democracy is in jeopardy in Israel, and this threat is greater than the external threat.

If the region truly becomes democratic, an undemocratic bit of earth would remain here. It's hard to imagine that the world, especially the Arab world, would tolerate this.

The only crime is pride.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.

When something seems to change in the world, the rishis said, it is really you that is changing.

Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.