Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar

When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.

A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

It was sometimes difficult to reconcile a man's talents with his personality.

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

Only those who serve with love are able to protect!

The person who makes promises to everyone ultimately pleases no one.

St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.