If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

All big changes of the world come from words.

In all the dictatorships, there's such a non-understanding of what human beings are. I mean, if you believe in the Bible, you have the story of Adam and Eve and God tells them, "Do whatever you want. The only thing you shouldn't do is eat the apple." What do they do the first thing? They eat the apple. So if you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how it is. In life, you don't have total happiness. People always say that. But you don't have total sadness either, no matter what situation you are living in.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.