The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

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

From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.

The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.