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

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

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

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.