Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

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.

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.