In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

We have 200, 000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

Through His Word we fall in love with Him more, and because of this we love more.

The crowning blessing of life - to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.

I was born with the gift.

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid.

I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

Taking the lead, that was the hard part. To concede after that was a massive disappointment - not good enough.

After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.