The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

People, your Government has returned to you!

We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.

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

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.