The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

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

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

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

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

These people really aim very badly.