I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

Today, Paris is the capital of the world.

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

There cannot be prosperity without security.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who voted for me. Triumphalism isn't my thing.

A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries.

Love stories have endings, but love itself is ongoing and continually warped and renewed by the people who do the loving.

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.

In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

By-and-by never comes.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.