Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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.
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. … Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs – we have no place to go.
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. … Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.
I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.