To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. - Steven Wright

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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here. - Golda Meir

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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

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Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

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I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!

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Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe. - Mark Twain

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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! - Golda Meir

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The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight. - Golda Meir

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