There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.

In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.

I think people are more likely to think it's better to find something new. That mentality has affected all of our thinking.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

A wise man never dwells in the past because he knows he belongs to the future.

Positive self-talk is to emotional pain as pain pill is to physical pain.

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith.

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?