Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

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.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

If I could bust out and eat anything... if I ever stop fighting, I could put on some serious weight with sweets.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

We become in part what our senses take in.

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.

Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.

It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.