In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.

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 bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?

Believing in miraculosity makes it even more available to us.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

A poem should improve on the blank page.

My concentration and focus level tends to go down sometimes when I'm in a bad mood.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

I still like to save up and splurge. That's an important thing to do.