If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the peoples desperate need for change.

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.

Your calling is your destiny

Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)

Practice yourself for heaven's sake in little things and thence proceed to greater.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

It takes more than clicking like for a good cause to change the world.