The obvious is always least understood.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.

I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

Stability is not immobility.

What is there to be frightened of? We shall be dealing only with men.

People only keep their eyes open out of habit. And, nothing more.

Most of all, I like chasing girls.

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.

To believe is to become what you believe.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.