It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

In the six degrees of separation, not all degrees are equal.

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

Light black. From pole to pole.

For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.