Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
The past is our very being.
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
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.
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.
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.