Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.

The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always.

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares