If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature.

Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and to laugh at this suffering, but since it was such a trauma on the European conscience, no one is going to do it. It is an open scar, an open wound, an open reality.

Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.

The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with the treatment of minorities, and your economic vision.