"He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it."

“You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly.”

“How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.”

“Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.”

“It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right”

“Other people are not medicine.”

“Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.”

“foreign policy is about trying to project the European model, its values, its principles, to the outside world. But at the moment, the European model is not as fascinating and as attractive as it may have been a few years ago. We have to be aware of this and take it into account when we try to promote our European system.”

“It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.”