Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

When we learn to relax and simply be present for the animal without judgment, we will find it much easier to connect with animals, and in turn, we will begin to see better responses from them.

Politicians are crooks!

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

I get up in the morning, have a job to do, go there, come home, be with the family, that's it.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.

I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?

Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.