“I don’t think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing – even in part – our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

We must see what in the Israeli identity – in the Israeli – we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren’t even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. but with you.

Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there’s nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.

Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.