Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.

The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

You are the dreamBut I’ve had wake up calls

You put your soul into those paintings, and nothing in this world is more beautiful to me than that soul of yours.

Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles but it does ruin today's happiness.

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.