"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.