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.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

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

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.