"I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time."

"In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage."

"My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth."

"When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die."

"You must plan to be spontaneous."

"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far."

"Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center."

"Every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."