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...

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

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

America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?