War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.

Joy of life is to be content.

those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.

There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.

AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.