I cannot prevent the French from being French

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.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff.

There's a strange thing goes on inside a bubble. It's hard to describe. People who are in it can't see outside of it, don't believe there is an outside.

Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.

Comfort, however, easily merges into license.