One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

Close your eyes, all you see is yours.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.