Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear, kind God!

When has life listened to anyone?It goes on at its own pace...Limping, when we wish it should run, And when calm desired, sprinting as in a race…

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

For me, style is about forgetting the rules or creating new ones.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

In my very first Wrestlemania match, I won. 17 wins from tying the Undertaker. Don't laugh.