The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

According to Lamarck, there was a force—the ‘power of life’—that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'

You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power.

People think you're being dishonest because you're just too blunt.

Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.