The Jewish Wisdom Database

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

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.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.