France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war

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.

The way to peace is not love, but Christ.

The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.

I've dreamed about producing since I was a kid.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

I love a nicely groomed guy who smells good. That's important.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

A rebel without a clue.

Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.