It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality