To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.

We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.

It's not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow.

It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

when i open eyes in the morning, it's just like GOD Sprinkle salt on my wounds

...because loving you is a crime. Which I love to commit each time, every day, whenever I see you, because that's how I love you.

One man with a dream at pleasure Shall go forth and conquer a crown And three with a new song's measure Can trample an empire down.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

Every war is a war against children.

At dinner my man appeares.

I'm a mischievous drunk.

I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.