If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

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

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Israel is not an aviary.

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

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

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

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.

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.

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

Do not allow me to forget you

When you smile, a bird finds her wings to fly.

Any thought or belief that doesn't suggest the realities of success and happiness in your life, should never be granted the access to dwell in your mind.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

We do not wish and do not need to expel Arabs and take their places.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

If someone asks, Is anyone alive? Break, your, head, open, and, show, your, ten, ta, cle.

We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]