“There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.”

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.

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

In nature nothing exists alone.

As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

Nothing exists until it is measured.

The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

As long as anti-gay legislation exists in any state, I strongly believe big events such as the Final Four and Super Bowl should not be held in those states’ cities.

A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.