One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Herman Achille, Count Van Rompuy is a Belgian and European politician, who formerly served as Prime Minister of Belgium and then as the first President of the European Council.
