I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: 'Is that kid from 'Love Actually' there?' And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: 'Are you famous?' I don't know how to answer.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.