Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.