The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.