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

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

What do you take me for, an idiot?

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

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.