Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature.

Unhappiness is complicated and has many different causes, but happiness is simple and has only one reason.

To be a part of the kingdom you need to desire it enough to search it out

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.

I think that we do have a great country, but there's a lot of things that we're not so great at. Unfortunately, education is one of them.

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.

There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all. ... I can't think of anything more deep than that right.

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.