What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.

If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.

Making a dream come true is like taking control of an airplane high up in the stratosphere and landing it safely on the ground – a measure of forethought, skill and courage is definitely required.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.

In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.

Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.