A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better.

Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world's most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.

A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country.

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.

The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.