Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills.

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.

Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.

if you wanna make friends, you have to be hypocrite, but if you wanna have best friends you need to be honest to them

To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

I don't think anybody who is already with Donald Trump is going to be peeled off by his not knowing about NATO or why Japan does not have nuclear weapons, or things of that sort.

I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.

The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."