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

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

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?

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