Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

Today we can be sure we are heading into the right direction. We managed to put the round back on track, after a long hibernation. But we are not there yet.

It is not good news, but we have to face reality.

Russia and Ukraine are candidates for the entry to the WTO and their dispute would be easy to understand and tackle if they are both members of this organization.

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Do not let anybody reign with you, until they suffer with you.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business.

It feels like you're being invited into a kind of community [working with the Coen brothers].

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.

Don't make the mistake of thinking you're Facebook's customer, you're not - you're the product.

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.