Treason is a matter of dates.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.