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.

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.

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

My parents made it a point that, although I was born and raised in New York City, I needed to speak Spanish because they wanted me to be able to communicate with my elders when I went to Santo Domingo or when my family came to visit from Cuba.

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Ice cream is my comfort food.

The thing thats fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.

I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.

Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

If something can be proven to work, we should try it... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

Life asks not merely what you can do it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.