There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

Anything that starts as a practice often turns into the habit and so can be the case with a person's nature of forgiving himself on his mistakes a few number of times.

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.

If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?

Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.

Until you lose your mother you don't know what it is.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.