“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”

“Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!”

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

“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either”

“A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this...”

“To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.”

“Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do buy gets you nowhere.”

“But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.”

“Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.”

“The problem of society is that they use a single word to describe you.”

“Beastliness means taking that is unrightful [of someones else right], eating that is unrightful, thinking of accumulating things which is unrightful [not of ones own right]. There is no problem in ...”

“The only problem is time.”

“...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?”

“We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.”

“When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.”