Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

My holy of holies is the human body.