Golda Meir

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

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

Don't be humble.  You're not that great. 

I must govern the clock not be governed by it.

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

Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.

You can't improve on saying nothing.

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

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

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon-no alternative.