The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

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.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate — it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.

My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase "Be Here Now." If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.