I have, as you know, the utmost respect for President Obama as a person.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

If the world does not change course, we risk self-destruction.

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. Ive always said this is the only way forward.

The Egyptians have grown in confidence, theyve tasted freedom, and theres no way back.

Beware! Success is not what you think it is. It's a trap.

I find the more I drink the more interesting others become.

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]

Beauty [is] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.

Whether you actually can or can't fight city hall is of little relevance. Either way, when the need arises, you must!

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

The right to privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.