Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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 don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
There is no such thing as a Palestinian.
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.
There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them.
Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
Come to think of it, I am more than a little tired of hearing about how the Jews ‘stole’ land from Arabs in Palestine. The facts are quite different. A lot of good money changed hands, and a lot of Arabs became very rich indeed.