“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.”

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.

My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

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.

I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.

Our love will never die. We’ll just dream another fantasy about touching each other.

I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.

The only way to kill death is through photography.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.