I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.