They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

Train your new employee properly. Sounds so obvious, and yet it often doesn’t happen.

...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

You cannot teach ambition.

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.

America is facing some major threats. Cyber warfare, Islamic terror and Russia, does it sound terrible? It sounds like the end of the world.

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.

There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.