An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Unintended jealousy is merciless.

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all mankind.

I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.

Trouble is part of your life

It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

Forget the adage buy low and sell high.