If you run from a leaking roof you'll end up with a flood.

I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.

From here [the Gaza withdrawal], our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II

If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays with you.

I'm often wrong but never in doubt.

Disunion by force is treason.

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.

I suppose that's the European way, dangerous and hairy.

But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.