"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs — we have no place to go."

"Being seventy is no sin, but it's not a joke either."

"We don’t want to be better than the Arabs. We only want to be ourselves. And that is better than the Arabs."

"I have a lot of grandchildren. And I want them to live in peace."

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. You can't stop the plane, you can't stop the storm, you can't stop time. So one might as well accept it …"