From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.