Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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.
My children have grown up around animals. They're not scared of them.
We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging.
That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream.
I just have to take my chances like any other composer.