I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

There have been major disagreements within the European Union.

We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

It's the oasis, " said the camel driver."Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked."Because we have to sleep.

A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.

Before a secret is told one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

Let's not let our fear of dementia deepen our fear of dementia.

People think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.

Change is scary but almost all change is good.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.