I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.

We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.

If you have the same problem for a long time, maybe it's not a problem. Maybe it's a fact.

I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.

I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

For me, I feel like, if the right movie comes along, I'd do it again. It's not about the budget. It's about whether it's something that I'm excited to work on.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.