Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.
It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.
if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want
And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.
Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?
if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.
He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.
We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.
I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One democratic state. He declared one offer, I am declaring the other offer. With two communities.