There's no job too immense, when you got confidence.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

A general's principal talent consists in knowing the mentality of the soldier and in gaining his confidence.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.