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.

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

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.

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

A power that can't be used for good? Like a bad girl power? I wouldn't mind being clairvoyant, but I wouldn't want it if I couldn't use it for good. Peace and love, man. Peace and love.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

I learned very soon to get along by myself.

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

It's much more fun to be the exception, not the rule