Golda Meir

“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”

“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”

“My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.”

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

“A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!”

“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.”

“Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!”

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

“To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.”

“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either”

“Don't be humble. Your not that great. ”

“Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great.”

“The dog that trots about finds a bone. ”

“Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom.”

“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.”

“There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.”

“Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. ”

“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”