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

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

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.

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.

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

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

The fatherland shall one day be like this: We’re not all equal, but we’re all brothers.

The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

Visions of McDonald’s restaurants dotting crossroads all over the country paraded through my brain. I don’t believe in saturation. We’re thinking and talking worldwide.

Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed in the knowledge and use of fire arms may find that information and skill of great importance.

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

There’s no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless or jobless.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.