I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

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.

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

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]