The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.
You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar
When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
We should use our imagination more than our memory.
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.
To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.
I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.
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.
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.
Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.
For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.
I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it is not repeated and to ensure we never go back to the days when humans behaved as beasts. Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember.
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.
You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.
It's a morality that keeps humans human.
There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.
Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.
Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.
