People are afraid of everything.

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.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.