"I try to follow certain rules. Nothing in Élysée Palace should become habitual, because routine lends one a deceptive feeling of security. You begin not noticing certain things and lose your focus on what's important. Uncertainty and change keep you attentive. This place and, to a certain extent, my office, help me avoid developing habits."

“The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward 2000-1887”, p.261, Edward Bellamy

“A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.”

Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

“There is no problem outside of you that is superior to the power within you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 14, 2015

“O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For ye are still her ancient seed On younger soil let fall— Children of Britain's island-breed, To whom the Mother in her need Perchance may one day call.”

Source : William Watson, “England And Her Colonies”

“Life at best is bittersweet.”

“They don't want you to vote. If they did, we wouldn't vote on a Tuesday. In November. You ever throw a party on a Tuesday? No. Because nobody would come.”

“Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.”

Source : Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.”

Source : "Nicky Whelan Talks MATADOR, Her Reaction to the Season 2 Pick-Up, Her Audition Process, Learning to Shoot a Gun, and Her Character’s Relationships". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2014.