“It's about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms I'm pushing, and I'm a strong believer in that when you lift bar...”

“I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.”

“Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.”

“You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage.”

“When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.”

“To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a r...”

“The price of stability is unpreparedness.”

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

“The price of love is high- but pain- we sell it cheap.”

“Having friends was weird . . . but in a good way.”

“I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.”

“My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been love...”