A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

Israel is not an aviary.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.