I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

People are afraid of everything.

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If I tell you something Leah, can you keep a secret?" Conor pressed a callused finger across a petroglyph of a deer like a blind man etching memory into his brain.

When you help other people you also help yourself it's impossible to not feel good when you do good for other people

Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

I'm a light comedienne, that's really where I live the most often.

In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

You run the football for toughness. You run the ball to tell your opponent that you're as tough as they are. But you throw the ball to ring the bell.

I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.