This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

I had the constitution of a missionary.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

When you practice leadership, The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership

The bright side of the planet moves toward darknessAnd the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, And for me, now as then, it is too much.There is too much world.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

Germany is dictating its policy in Europe

The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.