If you bet on individuals, instead of the people, you are going to fail.

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.

The happiness in our hearts is there for we dare to dream in light when the world tells us to scream in the darkness.

Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, ‘on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?’ Extremely difficult.

Praise, my dear one.Let us disappear into praising.Nothing belongs to us.

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.

I find that the older you get, the more helpful eyeliner is.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.

I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into adulthood.

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?