Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

France has no friends, only interests.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

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

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.