I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.