We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.

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.

If you are faithful and diligent in your work, God will place you before kings

I don’t know much about psychoanalysis, but I don’t believe that we can blame our actions on our upbringings. If we could, then nobody would be responsible for anything they do.

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

I had hoped God would be neutral.

In fact, is beginning to use a lot of the language and phraseology that we have used. In fact, I think I saw Hillary Clinton TV ad, and I thought it was me.

Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .

To care for another person, in the most significant sense, is to help him grow and actualize himself.

What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?

All truths wait in all things.