Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into me; I am a character in a fairytale, bursting with life.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)

Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.

The music of the Gospel leads us home.

I like the physical challenge. It's fun for me.

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.