Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Completeness is rare in history.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.