I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

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.

Reach out to the world. Be open. Help others and in doing so help yourself.

When you deeply and completely love yourself, you find there is nothing to forgive because everyone and everything has contributed to who you are now.

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

It's never too late to act on your dream

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead

My English is very bad.

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.