There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.

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?

I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide as ours has done ... whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

Anytime you don't want anything you get it.

Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.

Set a master goal for your running and for your life...

I think I certainly know that the space I want to work in is a fearless space.

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look.

I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.