"I never did anything alone. Whatever I did, I did with the people."

"I come from a generation where you don’t think of yourself as separate from the Jewish people. You are part of the Jewish people."

"We must be prepared to live with the paradox that we are both victims and victors."

"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. You can't stop the plane, you can't stop the storm, you can't stop time. So one might as well accept it …"