Peace is important for Israel.

Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

For his own unfathomable reasons, God chooses to disguise himself when he comes to this planet, and there have been few disguises better than the church.

If you are loyal to your time, finally the fate will be loyal to you.

The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

Eva [Braun] and I were never involved in the financial aspects of where [Adolf] Hitler put her up.

We were screwed and he didn't even kiss us first.

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?