I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.

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

Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.

Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.

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