Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.