He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

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

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July.

If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.