Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.