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“It was better to live for two days like a tiger than drag out an existence like a sheep for two hundred years.”

“Patents give you the right to sue, they don’t give you the money to sue.”

“This is the marvellous thing about theatre. The audience continually relates it to their own lives.”

“We continue anyway because once you have seen the sufferings and oppression, you simply cannot look away anymore.”

“La literatura refleja las ideas vigentes en una sociedad, y es expresión de ella.”

“Conversion will not bring about any good.”

“Le problème qui va se poser à nous dans un proche avenir consistera à substituer à des limitations de souveraineté qui nous étaient imposées par la force des limitations de souveraineté librement consenties.”

“I was repeatedly asked how the method of fast multiplication of multiplace numbers was found.”

“I began writing in rather chauvinistic times. Luckily, now, things are very different.”

“Education—a debt due from present to future generations.”

“I was young, angry, I wanted to build my own world.”

“All the nations of the world are made up of human beings, and of each and every human being there is one definition and one only: that they are rational.”

“I needed to find capital resources for large-scale experiments and for time to negotiate with the British and Palestinian authorities.”

“I am a man who has been ‘kicked’ by God, just as a boy kicks a ball in the direction he wants it to go.”

“How could we expect otherwise? World organization is still a new adventure in human history.”

“Have I ever misbehaved with you or any other journalist?”

“Let us not mark this anniversary with fine-sounding words, but with deeds.”

“Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, / And souls are ripen'd in our northern sky.”

“No one will deliver freedom to the woman, except the woman herself.”

“If someone asks what the heart of Yamato is, I would answer: the mountain cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun.”