It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.

Even between the best of friends, mistakes and misunderstandings can happen.

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

Aversion to change is denial of destiny.

Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

That is a debatable point, whether South Africans are xenophobic. I don't you'd have the numbers that you have of foreigners if South Africa was xenophobic.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.

No one in life can ever match fiction

The last time I was in Japan as President of Russia was 11 years ago, if memory serves. I later visited in my capacity as Prime Minister.