Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach

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.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.