We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

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.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?