There is a pride in speaking this language.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the worst way to explain the mysteries of life, except for Creationism.

Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, All right, I'll take it, bring it on.

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything.