Best Quotes of the week

˝He had such a cheeky smile and mischievous personality, you couldn't help but be charmed by him.˝

PARIS, March 19, 2010 (AFP) - Some of the best quotes of the week from around the world:

VIRTUALLY UNSTOPPABLE

"The Internet is a tidal wave that is going to be impossible for anyone to keep out."

-- Twitter co-founder Evan Williams speaking at the South By South West Interactive festival

CRIMSON TIDE

"This is a very symbolic way to express that our blood, the people's blood, is power."

-- Somsak Janprasert, a 63-year-old retired railway official from Bangkok, after donating his blood to a mass collection by Thai protesters seeking snap elections

RELIGIOUS COURAGE

"Don't be afraid, dear young people, if the Lord calls you to the religious, monastic or missionary life. He can impart deep joy to those who respond with courage."

Pope Benedict XVI in a message to young people urging them to consider becoming priests, as a paedophile priest scandal reverberates around the Roman Catholic Church

ISRAEL TENSIONS

"The announcement of the settlements, the very day that the vice president was there, was insulting."

-- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking of Israel's announcements of new settlements in East Jerusalem while US Vice President Joe Biden was on a visit

NO REGRETS

"I can't think of any days on which I failed and I would be happy if you could find one such area."

-- Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade assessment on his first decade in power

A SORE WINNER

"Roman knows very well how to read, understand and analyse the game. For sure he knows his team lost to a team that deserved to win. Because he is a man of fair play I am sure he accepts that."

-- Inter Milan football coach Jose Mourinho after Inter beat his former team, Chelsea, which has been built up by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich

SMALL MAN, BIG IMPACT

"From the moment I laid on eyes on him, I knew he was someone special -- he had such a cheeky smile and mischievous personality, you couldn't help but be charmed by him."

-- Guinness Book of Records editor in chief Craig Glenday, speaking of He Pingping, the world's shortest man at 75 centimetres (two feet five inches) who has died while filming a television series in Italy