When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu

We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things.

Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

That which concerns everyone must also be discussed and approved by everyone.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Been living on this earth for so long now and still don't know what a happy life feels like. I'm ready for a change.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.

I haven't done the Star Wars kind of films.

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.