To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.

There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.