"I love being with my children. They're fascinating people"

"The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"

"Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"He is not a lover who does not love forever"