Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

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.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

Next year I want to be better than this season, and the year after that, better than the year before.

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Most magicians are afraid of magic.

That which is revealed when thoughts are absent is also here when thoughts are present.

We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.

Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.