Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

I was never a believer in decline.

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Love others to make them feel better and so that you see yourself in the mirrors of their eyes.

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the strength and vitality ... Forget not the sources of thine inspiration.

We're in a world of triple-digit oil prices for the foreseeable future.

has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.

I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.