The dog that trots about finds a bone.
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
Being seventy is not a sin.