When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning.
Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.
What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.
If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not welcome here. France is a country that's open.
I love life too much to be bitter.
We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.
What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.
We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.
[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
There are a couple of different types of food I eat a lot. I was raised in the South, in Tennessee, so I’m going to go with comfort food, soul food. I would probably start with collard greens and candied baby carrots and then have some biscuits and white gravy - and for dessert, probably blackberry cobbler.