Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

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.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

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