What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world, what we believe to be possible, what memories we have, and whether our loyalties are to the past, the present or the future.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.