I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.
The superior man is never in anyone's way.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.