"I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship."

“The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.”

Source : "Theodore Zeldin - historian, philosopher". History Today, July 1999.

“One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.”

Source : Attributed to Jacques Chirac speaking to Silvio Berlusconi over the invasion of Iraq in 2003, 20 o'clock news, TF1, March 11, 2007.

“Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.”

“You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside, but you cannot need for it to come from outside.”

“Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.”

“Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.”

“But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If companies owning railways have been able to agree, why should railway workers, who would take possession of railways, not agree likewise? And if the Petersburg-Warsaw Company and that of Paris-Belfort can act in harmony, without giving themselves the luxury of a common commander, why, in the midst of our societies, consisting of groups of free workers, should we need a Government?”

“I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me”