The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much.

Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do.

This pick is going to be one where people look back and say that was the right guy.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.

The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

Those who warned that Gorbachev was being put under too much pressure were wrong.

In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.