I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?