Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

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

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

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.

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

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

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.