No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

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.

Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.

The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

Every end is the beginning of something else.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.