The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties...but...I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe.

I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.

The unsuccessful person neither thinks nor acts

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

Being an underdog is my lucky charm

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

My parents just always taught me to be reasonable.

Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.