“Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.”

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

There is no education like adversity.

Travel teaches toleration.

Justice is truth in action.

Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

As for our majority… one is enough.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.