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.

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.

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

The soul is soft, beautiful, delicate, fun-loving, and always blooming. To nurture the soul, it needs sunshine and unconditional self-love.

But maybe no one knew that much. Maybe everyone was making it up as they went along, the same as me.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Something worth doing is something worth putting your heart into.

You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence).

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.