“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.”

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.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

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

We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.

Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

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

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.

I think the best way to invite people into the conversation is to just create something beautiful out of love, and people naturally gravitate towards a new way of looking at fashion.

Imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

God made Blues right after he made woman.

It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.