Finally [Indira Ganhi] called a beautiful dark little boy who was playing on the lawn, and embracing him tenderly, murmured, 'This is my grandchild; this is the man I love most in the world.' It was a strange sensation to watch this very powerful woman embracing a child.

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.