263 Quotes by Shimon Peres

How did this happen? How did we start up a nation from nothing and transform it into a nation of start-ups? The answer lies in a paradox: having nothing was at once our greatest challenge and our greatest blessing of all. Without natural resources, our hopes were tied to our own creativity.

From the darkness of my hiding place, I would ask God to forgive the transgressors and have mercy on every man, as he himself had sown the seeds of weakness.

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.

It’s a morality that keeps humans human.

Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn’t have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.

When Israel was weak, I worked to make her fierce. But once she was strong, I gave my life’s efforts to peace.

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

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.

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.