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.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

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

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.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

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 must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

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?

Have the courage to contribute imperfectly and authentically in a world that is quick to criticize.

I'd ask you to think outside the box on this, but it's obvious your box is broken. And has schizophrenia.

I didn’t know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?

You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

It seemed like we were losing every night for a different reason. Now we're winning a different way every time. It's a great feeling.

Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!