Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.

My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes. He balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.

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