I am, and remain, passionate about news.

Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.

In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.

I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

I will count to 10 before tweeting.

I know politics; I know the media.

I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

I feel infinite.

Love shouldn’t require Windex to be clear. It either is or it isn’t.

Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

The difference between where you are and where God wants you to be is equal to the pain you're willing to endure.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.