Shimon Peres

“Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently.”

“You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar.”

“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.”

“You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.”

“The future is more important than the past.”

“For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.”

“It is better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.”

“The purpose of life is to find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.”

“I'm not a person who looks backward. I'm a person who looks forward.”

“Peace is not a sham. It is a must.”

“Technology makes the world smaller, not larger. It makes us more of a family.”

“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.”

“We are leaving the age of land and entering the age of science. We have to be on the right side of the future.”

“You have to be a bit of a dreamer to be a realist.”

“We have to live with our neighbors, and our neighbors are the Palestinians. We have to make peace with them.”

“I think that Israel has a great future, but it has to be built on peace.”

“It is not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow.”