Napoléon Bonaparte

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

History is written by the winners.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Imagination governs the world.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.