No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel

by Shimon Peres

doting and diligent.

“We must help the British army as if there were no White Paper, and we must fight the White Paper as if there were no war.”

we would never achieve great things if we let austerity become an obstacle to audacity.

choice at the heart of leadership: to pursue big dreams and suffer the consequences, or narrow one’s ambitions in an effort to get along.

“If an expert says it can’t be done, get another expert.”

“I want to hear the plans you have.” “We have no plans,” responded one. “Then I want to hear the plans you don’t have!” I replied.

without emboldening people to envisage the unlikely, we increase risk rather than diminish it.

“in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.”

we have yet to win the victory to which we have aspired: release from the need to win victories. Indeed,

“Which of your paintings do you consider your most beautiful?” the man asked. The painter looked up at the man, then turned his gaze toward a large blank canvas, resting on an easel in the corner of the room. “The one I will paint tomorrow,”