“Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.”

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.

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

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

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Old age is a shipwreck.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.

Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.