I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over.
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.
I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.
After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.
To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.
Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.
I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.