If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.