I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.