Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.

The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side.

Make men work together, show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.

Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.

Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.

There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets. Their prosperity is impossible, unless the States of Europe form themselves in a European Federation.