“Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.”

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

The cost of freedom is always high.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

Sincerity is always subject to proof.

I know when I feel good when I play. There’s a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it’s still playing live. For me, it’s what expands my soul.

You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.

Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.

So, in life we have a one question final exam – and it’s not the kind of exam you can cram for at the very end. One of the main reasons we’re alive is to expand our capacity to love.

I like to expand myself as far as watching movies.

Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

Expanding like the universe, I discovered galaxies within. To break glass ceilings: Breath in trust, exhale doubt-beckon bravery.

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.