France has no friends, only interests.

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.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it.

God promised you to give you dreams and visions, see Him as your great dream/vision giver.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Telling my children was the toughest part. But that's when you get strong, because you have to be strong for other people.

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

I think it's been unfortunate, but it's happened, that since the Great Recession, the gains have all gone to the top. And we need to reverse that.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.