It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.