The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises...

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.

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

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.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.

If the world is polluted, we are polluted. If the world dies, we die anyway. I don't pretend to be separate from the world. If she is poisoned, I jump in and be poisoned with her.

I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.

Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.

I don't think the problem that we have today is overzealous believers. I think the problem we have is underzealous believers.

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.