Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.