"Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities."

“To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. ''Tell me, according to what you judge and I'll tell you who you are." [...] No axiom in politics is more certain than this.”

Source : "Le Coup d'État permanent". Book by François Mitterrand, Part III, 1964.

“The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs.”

“Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.”

“I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life.”

“The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think”

“Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.”

“I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.”

“My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.”