“Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.”

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

These people really aim very badly.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.

Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.

I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.

You would be so proud of me, if you knew of all the ways i’ve turnt my pain into art.

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

Look at people like an unfinished work of art. Allow them to change, allow them to grow.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.

Your body is a work of art & your life is magic.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I’d have a hairy conniption. I’d just go crazy.