What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

Never humiliate anyone.

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.

Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!

If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.

Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith, Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.

The older you get the more you live in the past