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.

promoting fear in the nation.

This is a country which proves that it can make a difficult decision, a democratic decision, without fear, and that it is not afraid of threats and protests, ... On the other hand, it's a democratic country, in the sense that we can also protest, and we can also weep.

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea. (on the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin)

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.