He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

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

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

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

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

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.

I don't use Twitter for bad.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

Life is not lived in hours, days, or years, but in moments.