“The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.”

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its ‘right to exist.’ Israel’s right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved.

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.

Israel is not an aviary.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People’s sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name.

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That’s where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.

When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included