Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.