“You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.”

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

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

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

The future does not belong to men.

I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

France cannot be France without greatness.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

One cannot govern with ‘buts’.

You could have left me in the jungle. I would have survived and mastered bird language. Adaptability is my secret weapon.

Sunflowers adapt to let the light reach them and I’m learning to do the same.

Learning and adapting things again isn’t that easy for ones who loved someone unconditionally.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

You must always be evolving and able to adapt and overcome any and all obstacles!

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.