Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.