I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.