We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.