The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.

I dont want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where its everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

People better get used to the idea that I exist.

Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.

It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

I honestly think I am a better player than I was four years ago, when I was No. 1 in the world.

There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.

I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take a real serious objective look at our criminal justice system.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.