Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

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.

Old age is a shipwreck.

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.