To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.

I believe that there is something in all of us that is seeking expression, that wants to be heard, that wants to be accepted and respected and loved. We each express ourselves in different ways - through manipulation or domination, through receiving and giving pain, through crying, through loving, through giving hope and inspiration to others. We are all seeking the same thing - expression of who we are and what we want from this life.

Robin D. Hart

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Antonin Artaud

Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

Robert Benchley

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

Isaac Marion

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

John Wesley

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

Graham Greene

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

Ina Garten

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Naguib Mahfouz

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part

Samuel Johnson

Learning by experience often is painful- and the more it hurts, the more you learn.

Ralph Banks

On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

Eddie Van Halen

When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but their passions, which have got the better of their beliefs. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors; and when they separate, depend on it that it is for the sake of peace and quiet.

Laurence Sterne