You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

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

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

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!

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

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

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.