Third we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade there will be unmistakable consequences.

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

Surely God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

In our modern world of interdependent nations hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

So long as war is the main business of nations temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations but truth has only one mode of being.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

For many years it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months travel the world through coups d'etat assassinations famines massacres and tsunamis and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places many imaginations.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

Without any doubt at all teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just incidentally of education but I would argue probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.