 We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. |
| You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. |
| One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. |
| Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. |
| Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. |
| 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. |
| To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. |
| The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. |
| Being seventy is not a sin. |
| The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. |
| We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient. |
| Moses dragged us for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil. |
| Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. |
| Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. |
| I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. |
| It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. |
| Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. |
| I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. |
| Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. |
