France cannot be France without greatness.

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

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!

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

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.