For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

I have gone to the forest.

For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

'Hibakusha' is an animated docu-drama that Choz Belen and I are directing, and it will take you through the earliest memories of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor named Kaz Suyeishi.

The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.

There were two hours that couldn't be accounted for.

I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's true crime in the upper Midwest, and I can tell stories from any era of that. Maybe they connect to the first season or the movie, or maybe they don't. It's just a style of storytelling. We're under the auspices of being a true story that isn't true.

Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Loves are like empires when the idea they are founded on crumbles they too fade away.

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

At 'Price Is Right,' people feel so safe there and loved. And if you can't jump around on 'Price is Right,' then you can't jump around anywhere, you know?

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.

To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.

Salary negotiations shouldn't be limited to just salary. Salary pays your mortgage, but terms build your career.

Another day, another pang that you are afar.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.

I met five presidents. I had dinner with a president of the United States in the White House. I played golf with a president of the United States. I made money. I mean, when I look at it, I had a unbelievably fabulous career. And I'm extremely grateful.

In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.

There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality.

You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.