“The future does not belong to men.”

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.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Live like there’s no tomorrow.

Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.