Old age is a shipwreck.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

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.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.