It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love.