“To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.”

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

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

Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.

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

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.

The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.

We don’t want wars even when we win.

From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.

You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings,

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

The real story is that I am very free, that I’ve managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.