I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.

The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.

A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.