“If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming”

[But if things continue the way they are] …the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war.

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

We can’t ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives of all nations should dedicate a Temple of Eternal Peace.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

Only when all peoples of the earth shall go to THIS temple as pilgrims is eternal peace to become a fact.

The Arab, like all sons of Sham, has sharp and crafty mind . . . Should time come when life of our people in Palestine imposes to a smaller or greater extent on the natives, they WILL NOT easily step aside.

More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR.

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z, Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z, Nas ain’t seen nothing this nasty, B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too. You got the mic, I ain’t the one you wanna pass to

Coming from a background of being onstage, you’re onstage for two and a half hours and you’re in it for the whole time no matter what you’re doing. Even if you don’t have a line, you have to stay in it.

If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.

I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.

The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, “Good job, son.”.

All I can do is leave it in God’s hands and hope that my fans feel where I’m coming from.