“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

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

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.

A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be better.

I don’t want something anyone can have.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.