To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

My heart is filled with love for my new extended family - the billion-plus people in China who have shown me nothing but unconditional love.

I love being in the gym and am training six days a week; I do a lot of high-intensity interval training so that my heart rate gets really high, and I practice, as I'm doing that, taking really deep breaths, and that really helps in a song and in a style of music where you have to sing long, flowing lines.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.