Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

I cannot prevent the French from being French

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!

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

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.