I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers which I do not underestimate.

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients but even to strangers.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Never floss with a stranger.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs rents went up food costs went up unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good but it is not easy.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.