"If we have to choose between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image."

"I must tell you that I've never been sorry that I'm a Jew. I'm sorry for those who aren't."

"I would rather be right than popular."

"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."

"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."