Golda Meir

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!

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

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.

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

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

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.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...