“I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.”

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.

Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

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

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

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

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

The moon is alive because of the darkness how could we – ever be afraid of something that gives the stars a home?

The more you know her the more it scares yet it makes you wish you knew her more.

I didn’t ask because I was afraid of the answer.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Please don’t be afraid when i tell you about this emptiness i carry. I am still so full of love.

I want to be like the wild; Never afraid to grow.

I have a heart of fire and you are afraid of getting burned.