Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.

The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation.

The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side.

There's a little bit of panic because we don't know what to do. Here everybody has a little bit of fowl -- chickens or ducks -- for their personal consumption.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.