Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

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.

What is rank if not protection from the consequences which fall upon common men?

They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.

We judge others according to our image ofperfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

I never got married anyway, because I wasn't particularly keen on accepting the responsibility of another person.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

I'v planted my seeds for my upcoming events. but right now, Im just waiting for them to bloom

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.