The love of power excludes all others.

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.

Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.