I asked for strength, and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom, and God gave me problems to learn to solve. I asked for prosperity, and God gave me a brain and brawn to work. I asked for courage, and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for love, and God gave me people to help. I asked for favors, and God gave me opportunities. I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel.