For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Now is the only time we own give love toil with a will. And place no faith in tomorrow for the clock may then be still.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was essential.

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.

To be successful in business and life, spot the possibilities while others look for problems.

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.