It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

- Shimon Peres

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

- Shimon Peres

It's a morality that keeps humans human.

- Shimon Peres

I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are…

- Shimon Peres

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovatio…

- Shimon Peres

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

- Shimon Peres

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

- Shimon Peres

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

- Shimon Peres

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.

- Shimon Peres