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.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

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.

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

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!