“Unrequited love made right is the ultimate, isn’t it?”

But sometimes, it’s harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.

You’re every single fantasy I’ve ever had.

Looking for the good in people is never stupid.

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that.

I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple? Why can’t it just be as pure as two people who realize that they can’t live as well, or as happily, apart as they can together?

Some things are just perfect, even when they don’t make any sense

George W. Bush and Tony Blair made the promise that they would not tolerate failed states because they could become a haven for terrorists. And today? The number increases.

It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.

We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.

Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.

The biggest mistake Barack Obama could have made is to change quite a few things in his Afghanistan policy. He increased the number of troops and at the same time set the US withdrawal date to 2014.

And you wanted to hurry him up a little so you made a move, an unmistakable move; one that nobody could pretend had been a misunderstanding. And he – he ignored it – ignored you. What would you feel?