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?

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

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents