I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.

I love life too much to be bitter.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding.

Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

I saw no way out but to dive right in, to a good book.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day

My concern is what fight we can give to the fans. My first concern as a boxer is to try hard and give a good fight for the fans.

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

Live and let live. You snooze, you lose. Make your life a dream and your dreams come to life.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.

You've got to take risks if you want to find love.