"Study everything, but study yourself first."

“Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.”

“Accusations are useless.”

Source : "Sarkozy’s “Worst Nightmare”: An Interview With Dominique de Villepin". Interview with Alexandre Devecchio, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

“It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.”

“First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.”

“The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.”

Source : "The cure is working" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.

“I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.”

Source : "This week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

“Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.”

“I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.”