What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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.
Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.
To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?
I had starred in TV movies without much artistic value. They gave me a certain range. I knew that I was going to continue my studies, but I wanted to try something else on the side. I wanted to see what would come of it.
The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.