Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
France cannot be France without greatness.
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
Never relinquish the initiative.
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.