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 grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.