Old age is a shipwreck.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

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.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.