If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European.

When the going gets tough, you have to lie.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.

I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.

I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.

Decisions can only be reached in Europe if France and Germany agree.

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.

It is not more Europe or less Europe that we need. We need a better Europe.

I am for secret, dark debates.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Here's to one of the most beautiful kind thoughtful people I have ever known . . . You are getting more like me every day.

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.

We live and die in the midst of marvels.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith.