I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

The real plague is willful ignorance and education can't cure that.

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.