France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war.

Great things are not done without great people, and great people are great because they willed it.

How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?

I regard all the world as my country, and I believe that I should be very welcome everywhere.

-- Peter Paul Rubens

China will stay on the path of peaceful development.

-- Hu Jintao

There can be no diplomacy without the power to defend oneself.

-- Shigeru Yoshida

I want to see Mount Fuji.

-- Shigeru Yoshida

Introverts are characterized by higher levels of activity than extraverts and so are chronically more cortically aroused than extraverts.

-- Hans Eysenck

I choose what I believe, and say nothing. For I am not as simple as I may seem.

-- Catherine of Aragon