Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

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

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

I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.

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.