“We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.”

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.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

The more real you get, the more unreal things get.

Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.

Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.