You can't take back an act you were able to think.

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.