“Hamas’ battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.”

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas.

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance

Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty – to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America’s domination and its Zionist allie.

Not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world

Its your battle – either victory or martyrdom.

In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine.

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

We are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression.

The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine.

I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.

There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now.

The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

My sole occupation is love.