"Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport."

"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."

"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism."

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."

"People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography."

"I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way."

"I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it."

"Life is short, the art long."