Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Being reminded of your past doesn't mean that you have to live with constant grief. It simply means that you have been given the opportunity to transform your past into something positive.

I love women to death.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.