Those who are saying that Mario Draghi is in the camp of those trying to push Greece outside the Euroarea, are wrong.

When the going gets tough, you have to lie.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.

I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.

I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.

Decisions can only be reached in Europe if France and Germany agree.

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.

It is not more Europe or less Europe that we need. We need a better Europe.

I am for secret, dark debates.

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

When we love, we are the universe and the universe lives in us.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.

To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.