"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

"A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years."

"I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization."

"Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here."

"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."

"It is a enduring truth that do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon."