“To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.”

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool’s dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible

There is a joy in danger.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.

Imagination governs the world.

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Wouldn’t it be a different world if love passed as freely through us as money passes through hands.

My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist, and I had the most hard-working father, a television lighting director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with eyes open to sometimes harsh realities.

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

No borders, just horizons – only freedom.

Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

There’s a destitute side, a breakdown in me. My subversive pursuit to finally be free.