"Michael and Alex, I love you. And we're going to have the biggest celebration when you get home."

“The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.”

Source : Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

“There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.”

“The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.”

“There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second . . . the second?”

“You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe.”

“Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.”

Source : "Cannes 2012: Jean Paul Gaultier on His Favorite Films". The Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. 2012.

“Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.”

“There is a report that says that kids who watch violent TV programs tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did the TV cause the violence, or do violent children preferentially enjoy watching violent programs?”