I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.

If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.