We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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.
Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.
We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.
Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew; women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing unacceptable harm to others. Mill was not a libertarian, but many libertarians are quick to cite this principle when arguing against a regulation that they oppose. And I believe most thoughtful libertarians are prepared to embrace something fairly close to Mill's harm principle. But accepting that principle implies accepting many of the institutions of the modern welfare state that libertarians have vigorously opposed in the past, such as safety regulation.
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?