it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor..

If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one..

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor..

I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand..