I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then there were things like the film "The Sorrow And The Pity."

I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical.

Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.

To struggle against the weight of sleep as reality eclipses the moon of your dreams is the purest sign of true love.

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.

The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.

Nothing goes to windward like a 747.

Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.

I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences.