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.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.