If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.