China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.