I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

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.

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

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.

Embracing the LightCollected bits of truthShimmering sparksShards of lightMergeHealingRestoringBursting BrightRisingin divine ecstatic flame.

The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'