Clinton says Peres lived in ‘constant wonder’

Clinton says Peres lived in a “state of constant wonder.”

“He lived 93 years in a state of constant wonder over the unbelievable potential of all the rest of us to rise above our wounds, our resentments, our fears.”

Clinton says it’s easy to say these things at a memorial service, but “it’s hard to do.”

Peres had to conquer his “demons” and “disappointments,” he says.

He says the “monumental effort to do that grew his heart bigger than his brain, which is really saying something.”

That effort, “I am convinced, made him forever young,” he adds.

“Now he is gone,” he says, leaving a “powerful example.”

“So for the rest of our lives, whenever the road we travel comes to a dead [end]… in his honor I ask that we remember Shimon Peres’s luminous smile, and imagine.”