I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

We are a small nation, but strong.

Most important, don't do anything you don't want.

Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.

I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

There is no more Palestine. Finished.

It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

I have the strength to endure it all.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

To aim and hit you need one eye only and one good finger.

Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.