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Quotes by Israeli Authors
"I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry."
"Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability."
"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."
"I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt."
"And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb."
"Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them."
"So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel."
"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
"I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour."
"The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth."
"The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America."
"I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy."
"We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient."
"We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is."
"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."
"In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone."
"There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place."
"The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country."
"I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen."
"Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message."
"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
"To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man."
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development."
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."
"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil."
"In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state."
"Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'"
"Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?"
"For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them."
"The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible."
"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."
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