We will not accept any...coexistence with Israel...Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel....The war with Israel is in effect since 1948.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight.

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

I don't act; I react.

I got over shy a really long time ago. I'm queer, I'm feline, get used to it.

Faith is not the belief that everything will be all right tomorrow, but the belief that I possess the strength to make everything all right today.

I'm a movie guy - I can get lost in anything.

I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way to get into the self-hypnotic state that I need to be in to write.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel.

Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.