I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.

I dont want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where its everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

People better get used to the idea that I exist.

The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.

Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

You know what really fries my Puerto rican pancakes?

Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind.

We are still living in the deep darkness of conformity.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

You attract what you are, not what you want. So if you want it then reflect it!

The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to.