Physical courage is a great test.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.