Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.

The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.

There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted 'from the gut,' and was economical with the truth until it disappeared.

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.