Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

I cannot prevent the French from being French

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

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.

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.