“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.”

“As I got older and more educated about things like chemicals in food and how beef is processed, I simply stopped eating certain things because it felt like the right thing to do.”

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”

“We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place. ”

“I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.”

“There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.”

“If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.”