Youre shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.

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 fear of failure is a liability.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

If we don’t know who we are, we conceal our true selves and wear the image of others

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".

After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.