It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that...
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready t...
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
Physical courage is a great test.
To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.
I don't want to hear about my death.
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentag...
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma...
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.