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.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

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

He that would enjoy life and act with freedom must have the work of the day continually before his eyes. Not yesterday's work, lest he fall into despair, nor tomorrow's, lest he become a visionary, nor that which ends with the day, which is a worldly work, nor yet that only which remains to eternity, for by it he cannot shape his actions.