A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.

You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

History has a way of chasing gravity just like water, feeding into other parts of itself to become something else, something larger and grander, until the one pure thing it was no longer exists.

He had become, after all, her home.

My mom bought me this amazing baby-food maker, the Beaba. I steam and puree fruits and vegetables, and they last for, like, four days.

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.

Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.

I'm definitely a singer, but I play. I write music too, but it's all coming from the same source. I have never learned an instrument any other way than by myself.

I hope that people who don't live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.

Tattoos don't impress me. For me it's just another awkward part of fame. It's extraordinary - tattoos in basketball and soccer, it's quite extraordinary.