“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”

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

“Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”

“Soyons fermes, purs et fidles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cd. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there ...”

“Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.”

“France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war”

“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more th...”

“Finally, I applied to one of my roommates, more sagacious than the rest, for advice. Dave, I said. Im broke and without prospects. Ive blown my GI Bill on flying lessons. I cant hide out here in co...”

“Top 15 Things Money Cant BuyTime. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

“As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”

“A true philosopher must never give up.”

“...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.”

“Never, never, never give in!”