"When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'"

“when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.”

Source : Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Blind Faith”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

“The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.”

Source : "On being wrong". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.

“I like films to be complete in their written form.”

Source : "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

“If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow, I'd store up no virtue For Heaven's distant plain, I'd live at ease as I did please And sin once again.”

“For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.”

“Snoop [Dog] is my favorite artist of all time. He's someone I look up to.”

“Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make ...”

“The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.”

Source : Henry Clay, William Branch Giles (1827). “Mr. Clay's Speech on the Tariff: Or, The "American System," So Called ; Or, The Anglican System, in Fact, Introduced Here ; and Perverted in Its Most Material Bearing Upon Society, by the Omission of a System of Corn Laws, for the Protection of Agriculture”, p.80