He who whets his steel, whets his courage

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.