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

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

One does not arrest Voltaire.

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

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

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.