There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

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.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

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

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?