The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.