Shimon Peres

"The most important thing in life is not to give up."

"Peace is not a dream. It is a responsibility."

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

"Anyone who believes you can't change history hasn't tried writing their memoirs."

"Optimism is the fuel of progress."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"The future will be determined by what we do today."

"Technology will reshape life, but memories will endure."

"Dreams are free, but their realization requires hard work."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather action in spite of it."

"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them."

"In science, as in life, imagination is the beginning of creation."

"Time is the currency of life. Spend it wisely."

"Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It's about who came and never left."

"The role of leaders is to raise people from the ground to the stars."

"History teaches us that we must be more cautious about our wars."

"Art is the expression of the soul."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal."

"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is freedom."

"The family is the foundation of all societies."

"Music speaks where words fail."

"Faith in something greater than ourselves gives us strength."

"Work is not punishment; it is the highest expression of human dignity."

"Happiness comes from within, not from external possessions."

"Truth may bend, but it cannot break."

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."

"Nature teaches us the rhythm of life."

"Science is the poetry of nature."

"Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"Strength is not about how much you can carry, but what you can lift others with."