The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

We have 200, 000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.

What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?

When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.