"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human."

"To know nothing is the happiest life."

"The desire to write grows with writing."

"The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death."

"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."

"Peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler."

"No nation was ever ruined by trade."

"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."