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

— Golda Meir

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.

— Golda Meir

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

— Golda Meir

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

— Golda Meir

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

— Golda Meir

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

— Golda Meir

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

— Golda Meir

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

— Golda Meir

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

— Golda Meir

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

— Golda Meir