I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

Is my name V? No... Then why would I follow U?

Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do