Italy, wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.

I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world - to an individual or to a nation.

It is a crime to despair. We must learn to draw from misfortune the means of future strength.