People don't want other people to be people.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

Time turns our lies into truths.

Haters never seem to realize that jealousy is an infinite torture to which you condemn yourself.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

I serve society by rocking!

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Take all the hype out of the exercise and think of it as brushing your teeth.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

Every day I think, 'Can I commit?' I think I can and that I will