In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things.

We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

That which concerns everyone must also be discussed and approved by everyone.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world.

The problem with aging was not that death was near, for death was always near. The problem with aging was that a woman began to carry too many memories within her.

His tongue swirls against my skin, and I gasp. His voice rough with passion, he rasps, "You're living fire. I burn.

Troubles are God setting the stage for greater blessings in your life.

Books have more useful things to say than fools.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.

I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.

I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of land, water, and air.