Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

After bread, education is the first need of the people.

Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

Maybe people don't think moms are cool. I don't know what to say about it. I don't know. Romantic comedies aren't for everybody, so maybe mom movies aren't for everybody.

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.

You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.

I usually wear moulded boots for training, but I mainly wear studs in matches unless it s really dry.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.

If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.